Show LARGE EGG COG RECORD ib ut war sf 1 wl joefa I 1 have a few h hens which I 1 axe kept for a a twofold purpose says yx a massachusetts ati clergyman in farm poultry first the pleasure of taking cire care of them and ceo and the 9 satisfaction aus faction of having baving an all th taft fresh eggs needed in the family the record which I 1 have hav may not be at all unusual but some of my neighbors think it is ia beyond the average I 1 have 13 white plymouth sock rock hens batched about the of april 1894 they commenced laying the of november the first day of december I 1 commence commenced 4 keeping an account of the em laid and the following folio wing is the rears ears record which was completed last saturday Oe cember ber I 1 july Jn ly nuary 3 2 1 august february au september VA larch october kotob november april nl kp 1 I may aune une 20 total 2785 2495 being an average per hen of for the a year but bull I 1 set three of these hens and they atcher 80 30 chickens I 1 succeeded in rais g but 19 however and during the briod iod three were sitting and car ig for their air chickens the other ten hens bew something more than four of an egg apiece berday per day it if a ife e to say that the three that had chickis would have done as well assum ig 9 thip tobe to be true the 13 hens should e with more eggs making total or an average per hen pins corthe te year I 1 find lelnd on that on an two days ur 9 ibe jisi year all IS 13 wd laid on seven lays SA 12 out atthe at of the 13 laid bild my iffa record also says that during the 31 RAVen only ten airn hens were laying ing theother three having chickens chicken he e avera average p yield I 1 f e ild per dej hen heit was rif 26 9 10 eggs gs ar 31 days after having izad for a year they show aw but bat little diminution of their in dast rious babi habits for they have laid 12 agga egga in the last int two days and from the commotion in the ben henhouse bouse they an am busy this zooming rum ning idy closest calculation shows me that the a profit en cn these 15 18 heos hens 1 I do not reckon labor anything as their care has been recreation ion without any attempt to get anything more than thi the common arket price tor for eggs we havea have a good market arket however I 1 have not sold any pr weeks less that 88 cents per dozen 47 |