| Show GOOD MALES BRING LAYING HIGH-LAYING HENUse HENS HEN S Use Progeny Testing Plan t to o Pick Best Sires Prepared d by br tho d United States Department of ot Agriculture Service A good mule male Is ten times as Important Important Im Im- Ii n nas as a good hen ben In building l up a flock poultry of ot For this reason rea ren renson son Bon progeny testing a method which enables a n poultry breeder to Identify Iden Iden- Wy the superior m males les In his flock flock aock Is a necessity to progress In poultry breeding says lys Dr M. M A A. A. A Jull In charge of ot poultry Investigations for tor forthe forthe the United States D Department p of Agriculture Too much significance has been attached to phenomenal records In egg laying egg laying contests according to Doctor Jull Jul who bases his bis statement statement statement state state- ment on the results of ot n a recent experiment experiment experiment ex ex- with White Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds at the research center of ot the department at Beltsville Md production High records In the ancestry of or hens used In a breeding lock flock are of ot course de desirable elm We but the experiment shows show s that such records on only one side of ot the ancestry are not sufficient assurance of ot producing high pullets On the tho other hand three genera generations of ot good production egg rae do give some assurance of good records of the pullets A hen that p produces good laying pullets by one sire may produce pul pullets pullets pullets lets with much lower averages n when mat mated d to another sire the ne next neM t year Sear This Indicates that a hens hen's value as a breeder Is not always shown by the average a egg production production production tion of 01 her daughters but depends also on the mating Involved The Thi ability to select superior breeding males is of ot great Importance because be because cause ause a sires sire's Influence on a flocK Is ls at least ten times as great grent as that of a 8 hen as one sire Is usually usual usually ly mated to ten or more hens bens TI The Index of greatest value alue In Ing log a sires sire's breeding worth was found to be the average egg production tion of or all aU of or his daughters |
