Show housewives FINICKY ABOUT SIZE OF EGGS egg marketing specialists in the past year or so have discovered that the boss of the kitchen tho the american can housewife is turning finicky about alot a lot of things and eggs is antof them the result has been that small email underweight ill shaped egah are arc fast becoming a drug on thi market and co command second class prices this condition is beginning to reset react directly onto the former farmer who is producing eggs from a respectable farm fari flock and depending upon his hia profits to supply a large part of his ready money to get the top market prices for eggs the farmer fanner today must have not only hens of high productive abai lity but hens laying large well formed eggs government breeding specialists have learned that it is much more difficult to breed into a flock of chick ens the alic factors which are responsible toi for size and quality of eggs than it is to breed for greater numbers therefore no matter how many digs eggs a hen anit may y lay she is not considered good stock unless her eggs come up to the minimum standard of two ounces per egg or one and ahall a halt pounds to the dozen this is particularly true whore where the farmer is selling his eggs tor for hatching batching undersized eggs do not hatch batch well and the chicks are seldom satisfactory to their owners hatcheries aies are doing much through their extensive breeding programs to eliminate the hens laying small arneil egg eggs from the flocks of the country thib tha is particularly true of the leading hatcheries of the country who aro are operating under the fi logan hatchery chicks for greater profits |