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Show BETTER PROGENY BY CULLING Improvement Mado in Flock by Get tina Rid of All Hens Except j Most Prolific Layers. I (Prrred by Ih. bnHejl St.Ki D.Mtlra. J of Agriculture ) ""mm jpj That culling the poultry llocU to rot M rid of nil thosu birds exu-pt the Bgr ou8, prolific Inyera results in notice-' fl nble Improvement In the progeny U j shown by recent InvestluiitloiH at tin United Stntcs exDerlinciit furni Ueitj. H Examining a hen to Find if She li H Laying Measuring Distance Be- WM tween Pelvic Bones. H vllle, Sid. Tlio late monitors RLlccted mm from n Hock of 100 Ilhodo Island Heds M In the full of 10l!0 Inld seven mors H epes per bird during their scrond jcat W tlmn tho original (lock ns pullets. Thej M wcro used us breeders the following UM Rprlng, nnd the first lied pullets to H commence luylng in the fnll of 1021 W wcro found to bo the offspring of these H Intc-moultlng hens. Their pullets La H u period of sQvcn months huc uluad; H averaged nbout two dozen eggs per H bird inoro than tho original flock. Iiut It Is not nlonc In number ot eggs that tho Inte-moultcrs' progenj excel, but nlso In the value of the product, ns tho distribution was more V even, n much larger proportion of tlio eggs being lnld during the winter 1 months. In the lust seven months tho duughters of tho lntc moulters not only nvernged two dozen eggs per bird H more than tho original flocU, but the value of their product was, figuring at H the name prices, nbout $1.04 per bird more during the samo period. It Is H expected that this margin will In- creaso during the next five monthi. |