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Show CULLING OUT THE N0NLAYING HENS Excellent Detector Made of Piece of Felt Saturated With Colored Col-ored Spindle Oil. On our ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, Cal., we keep about 1,200 laying lay-ing hens. To weed out the unproductive unproduc-tive members of the flock we placed a piece of felt saturated with glycerin or spindle oil colored with a dye at the entrance to "each nest, where the hen would strike it. The productive, nest-visiting hens bore marks on heads, tails or backs attesting their Mark Laying Hens. egg-laying abilities. The uncolored. hens were speedily segregated and, failing to show color after a second color test, were sent to an early death, says a writer in Technical World. We used one color for a week, then changed to another for the' second week, and so on, in order to continue the tests for a month or more. It made ourvheus' plumage resemble Joseph's coat of many colors, but we were seeking eggproducing results, not beauty, and our scheme amply re-paid re-paid us. |