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Show AVOID EXCITEMENT IN PENS I . Poultrymen Will Save Several Eggs Every Day by Observing Rules of Silence. Whistling, or speaking gently, or knocking on the door to let the hens know when he Is coming will save the : poultrynian several eggs in the day's : gathering, says Prof. Willard C. I Thompson, poultry husbandman of the New Jersey experiment station, in a circular issued on "The Winter Time j Management of the Laying Flock." Fright, he continues, is often fatal to and always interferes with normal egg production. Hence the necessity of having the poultrynian move slowly so is not to cause pvciienient In the pens, - we r I |