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Show I ROOSTERS LOW- I ER EGG YIELD Interested Tetti Made at New York K Experiment Station on Pretence Of Male In Flock B Tho belief used to be general many Bj years ago that hens would not lay H without the presence of a male bird B In the flock. And even today there. B are a few people that contend the B male stimulates egg production to a B greater or less extent. Men who jjClK have raised poultry for years still ' UtrV cling to this notion and persist In B keeping a lot of males hanging about B where only eggs are wanted. The New York experiment station H made up four pens of pullets, two H consisting of puro bred stock and B two of mixed stock. With one pen of B each class cockerels wore kopt while I with tho others none wero allowed. The cockerels were put with the two pens two months before any began m laying. Some pullets In each of the two pens in which no cockerels wore put began laying a month before- any B In the two containing cockerels. The fowls were of the Asiatic breeds and I rather persistent sitter. No attempt B was made to dlscouraago any of the B hens from sitting and there seemed B to be no difference In the relative B number of sitters in the contrasted B pens. Of the cross bred pullet the B lot without males laid better through-B through-B out the season and also during the B best egg season. Of the other lot B the one without males began laying B earlier and did better than thj one H 'with males during the first part a! B tho season, but It fell slightly behind I for the latter months, though during B that period they kept even with '.ho Bj lot which was accompanied by males. Bj It was thought that tho vice of feath-B feath-B cr eating which broko out In this pen B bad much to' do with the falling off B 'n egg production. B From these experiments it would B seem that the presence of males niR flj a detrimental Influenco upoi the ess H yield. This Is also tho theorv ad- B vanced by many In recent years and It Is now pretty generally .incepted H hy prominent egg farmers. |