| Show LEGHORN IN FAVOR produce eggs cheaper than fowls of so called general purpose breeds breads MOST profitable TO KEEP fact established in rather extensive feeding test conducted by poul thymen of the department of agriculture from tile the united states department of agriculture Legli orns produce eggs cheaper than liens hena of 0 tho ilia general purpose breeds plymouth hocks Wyan dottes ithone island fileds and this fact which confirms tile tho belief and experience peri ence 0 of commercial poultry farin ers was ono one of ilia results obtained in ill a i rather extensive feeding test re rc bently reported by of tit tho united states department of agri agrical cul ture lure because they lay jay na its many or more eggs eat cat only about fifty five pounds of feed per head as aa compared with seventy to eighty five pounds eaten by the general purpose breeds and because their egg yield very materially exceeds that of general purpose breeds during their second and third laying years leghorns Leg Legli horns orns tho ilia specialists soy say undoubtedly tire lire more profi profitable tabie to keep for tho ilia product production lort of eggs only result of feed test in this test tho ilia feed cost of a dozen ggs eggs for one of tile the leghorn pens was e cents in 1013 1913 while tho the average cost of nil all tho the pens of the general purpose breeds was cents in feed cost of a dozen eggs for tho the same pen of leghorns Leg horns was 7 cents ng its against an average cost of cents for tho ilia second laying year of tho ilia general purpose pens during their third laying year the ilia cost ot of a dozen dozea eggs was waa 88 cents compared to cents centa for or tho ilia general purpose fowls tito the total value of eggs per lien ben over feed cost in the leghorn pen for three years yeara was against for tho the general purpose liens tho the highest egg production obtained in any ally of tho the feeding experiments up to 1015 1915 was by a pen of which inta 1570 eggs per hen at a feed cost of 07 cents a dozen tito the leghorns Leg horns produce oni tiller eggs thon than tho the purpose breeds tile the average weight of tho the eggs of a pen of leghorns Leg horns during the first laying year was pounds per dozen na as against to pounds for or tile tho other pens Ilo however wever laying eggs weighing pounds per dozen or even more tho the allots say havo have been selected and bred by many poultry men an examination examina tiou la in may 1015 of eggs from three leghorn pens showed that 31 per cent weighed more than two ounces apiece or 1150 pounds rids to the dozen value of eggs the value per pec dozen of the eggs pra produced by the leghorns Leg horns was from I 1 to 8 tents cents less each year than the eggs of g 0 purpose hens this dif ferenci la Is duo due to tile fact that the general p purpose breeds tire mo better winter toy lay ers era thun alian ilia leghorns Leg horns whilo allo 1110 the battel give a higher production in tile sprine and summer very few ba como come broody which vatch probably ly affects their egg yield its is coni parce with ilia general purpose breeds bot bet ter fertility in tho ilia eggs with stock confined to ilia yards it ii more often secured with Legli leghorn orni than with ilia general purpose or any ail of tho the heavier breeds |
