. The Farm-poultry. t. s\» eepstake f oi-liest eoek, Zckls, - heiis. ami live pullets. At Uoston show, Jan. 14—19. 1901. in competitionwith the best birds In the east, 1 won •> ribbons, includ-ing 2d ami Mil pullets. 27 hi class: 4th ckl. 29 inClass. These prizes w ere won With birds of my ownbreeding. ~J?( 1 f * W from In grand pens, 4 mated to pro-1 j I vlii duce exhibition ekls. ami t; to pi odueeexhibition pullet-. $3 per 13: %h per 26: $7 per 40:$;per 100. Senil for my folder giving a full descriptionof my matings for 1901, W. , Haverhill, Mass, ( are Merrimack Nat. Hank. U
. The Farm-poultry. t. s\» eepstake f oi-liest eoek, Zckls, - heiis. ami live pullets. At Uoston show, Jan. 14—19. 1901. in competitionwith the best birds In the east, 1 won •> ribbons, includ-ing 2d ami Mil pullets. 27 hi class: 4th ckl. 29 inClass. These prizes w ere won With birds of my ownbreeding. ~J?( 1 f * W from In grand pens, 4 mated to pro-1 j I vlii duce exhibition ekls. ami t; to pi odueeexhibition pullet-. $3 per 13: %h per 26: $7 per 40:$;per 100. Senil for my folder giving a full descriptionof my matings for 1901, W. , Haverhill, Mass, ( are Merrimack Nat. Hank. Utility Stock. BRED FOR BUSINESS. Lt. Brahmas, Barred and White Plymouth Rocks,White Wyandottes. We won at Boston show, January. firsts,19 seconds, 19 specials on dressedpoultry ^ell eggs tor hatching from the most prac-tical birds to be , $2 for 13; $3 for (30; $0 for for sale at all times. CURTISS POULTRY FARM, West Not well, Mass.(P. O. Assinippi). 164 Farm=Poultry April 1 enty-five per cent of the eggs tbat show fertil-ity at the first test. This usually means aboutone hundred ami twenty-five chicks from twohundred and tweuty eggs. If the first testruns very high, a larger number of eggs thanusual is generally taken out at the first test. We never succeed in raising over seventyper cent of the chickens hatched. We read ofothers doing it, but have never talked withanybody who would look us in the eye andsay be had done it, artificially. We think ourmortality has come from some lack of staminain the breeding stock, or in a few instancesfrom the eggs getting chilled before beingpicked up in the laying house. It stands toreason that there must be some hens constitu-tionally weaker than others in a flock of fivehundred. Also, that a hen has her ott trap nest records last year showed somecurious things. Iu one incubator all of a cer-tain heirs eggs would be fertile, while in thenext hardly one would stand
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