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Show Frtn'try Brlofs. Lice are very destructive to turkeys, and it Is absolutely necessary to Inspect In-spect the birds frequently to keep off the parasites. One must not take It for granted that the turkeys have no lice Just because most of them appear thrifty. The lice will, most of them, attack the weak birds. The work of breeding up layers at the Maine experiment station is a good one. In s recent experiment they selected se-lected 236 hens and kept a record of their individual performance for a year after each one began to lay. Of these hens 39 laid 160 cr more egs and 35 less than 100 eggs each. The records vary all the way from 36 eggs per year to 208. This difference is remarkable, re-markable, and shows the necessity of culling out the poor layers. The result re-sult of the experiments" is to unsettle much that we formerly thought settled, set-tled, such as the supposed possibility . of telling a good layer on sight The reports says: "A study of the record sheets shows great differences in the capacities of hens, and marked variations varia-tions in the regularity of their work; some commencing early and continuing continu-ing laying heavily and regularly month after month, while others varied much, laying well one month and poorly or not at all the next. It is impossible im-possible to account for these vagaries, as-the birds in each breed were bred alike and selected for their nnifom- . Ity. All pens were of the same s and shape and contained the ' same number of birds. Their feeding and. treatment were alike throughout , Whenever change were made in the feed in one pen, they were made in the others. That they were in good- , health is shown, by . the fact that but . two were ailing, and were taken out early; two erop bound; and one ln- -. Jwred- by rough treatment by . a cocls- v erel.J-Miany'of-the lightest layers gave evWence'of much -vitality, and in many . ,. instances there Were no marked Indications Indi-cations in form' or type by whih we- ' were able to account for the small . v ' ' mount, pf work,, performed by then). .4 -,A'umtrs" 234, -7 aha 236 yielded respectively re-spectively 3.6, 37?and 38- eggs 4- the- -- year. They' were of the egg type, and gave no evidences of weakness or mas- ;. - ".( culinity." . : ' - :' . ' |