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Show IPpoultry I CACKLES ItESSENBROODINESS OF HENS rrv Ambitious and Enthusiasts Poultryman Tries to Restrict fl IU Development. H .A br the United State Departtntat Broody hens, like wayward clilldrcti, I rr'nt discredit t0 t,le,r l)arcnt i. .oiirre of annoyance to nit who tut to i1 wit" thc1"- T,mt ,8 wh J 0( the greatest concerns of every uiMtlous and enthusiastic poultry. stall to restrict the appearance and feUipment 0f broodlness In hi Block ?hp United States Department fl rfurlculture lius found that broodl-Bit broodl-Bit n be reduced very markedly HLTcireful, rigid and persistent sclec- H it the Massachusetts experiment ititlon, where a detailed experimental iJ; 'it hrnorllness has been made. It SB KrHRnHtflmL' vtHKiJeflBBBBBflR nil Esrly Hatched Pullet l the One B Tlitt Difllns to Lay Early In the Fill. Bus ascertained that previous to tho Bnctice of selection the average hen flu the flock w as broody 8.88 times a jar. After painstaking selection was .Hpictlced for five years, this tendency o bfcodlnesg was reduced so that tho 'Brte egg producer In the flock de- flwoped broodlness only 0.80 times a flrtr. A study of the correlations he- Hftn broodlness and egg production Bfecwi that pullets that are very broody Bad to lay relatively few eggs be- Bwn their broody periods. Tbere Is no one domlnnut cause of modlness among poultry. Geneticnl-fl; Geneticnl-fl; tliero occur four distinct types of Bwbroodlncss and one of broodlness. jtls believed that birds showing only B slight tendency to broodlness belong B th same class as tho nonbroody flK as ench has about the sarao Broportlon of broody offspring. Tho Brfennlnatlon of broodlness Is com-'Jetted com-'Jetted by tho fact that birds that not broody during the pullet year jflij become broody during their sec B61 or third laying season. |