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Show HEN THAT FOOLED EXPERT In the current Issue of Farm and Fireside appears ap-pears an Interesting article entitled, "Is There an 'Egg Typo' In the Domestic Fowl?' Following Is an extract: "Some years ugo one of the best known poultry-men poultry-men In America, n veteran ot many years' experience, experi-ence, wns a visitor at the Maine Agricultural Ex. porlment Station. In going over the pens one bird struck his eye as of outstanding merit as a layer. In his words, she represented the ideal, tho highest high-est expression of tho 'egg type.' Ho demonstrated to an attending group of students the severnl points of body conformation which proved that this bird was one of the world's great layers. Sad it was, but true, that at the ond of her year's work this paragon of producers, though having always enjoyed enjoy-ed the best ot health and vigor, was found by ex-nmlnntion ex-nmlnntion of her trap nest record to taavo produced the magnificent totnl of twenty-eight eggs in n year' "So far ns wo now know there Is no one external ex-ternal character, nor any (roup of such characters, which will enable ono to sny with any eertalnty beforehand that one bird will make a high produ-' eer and another a low producer. One can tell that a bird is going to lay, that Bhe Is laying nnd that sho has laid, but farther than this it is not possible possi-ble to go, nt least so far as nny biological evidence, now available regarding the functioning of tho ovary ov-ary indlcntcs. Thero l no real, definite, critical evidence of the existence of such 'n thing ns an 'egg typo " .. .. -!- J- |
