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Show Forty-five Millions Lost Annually by Farmers It is conservatively estimated that there is an annual loss in eggs in this country of $45,000,000, Practically all of this enormous loss is sustained by the farmers of this country, as it is on the general farms that the great bulk of eggs is produced. A very great part of this loss can be prevented pre-vented by the production of infertile in-fertile eggs, which are laid by hens that do not have a male bird with them. The male bird has no influence whatever on the number of eggs laid. Therefore, as soon as the hatching season is over the male should be removed from the flock. The greatest trouble from blood rings in eggs occurs in hot weather. weath-er. Special care should be given to the gathering and storing of the eggs during the late spring and summer months. At these times the eggs should be gathered at least twice a day, placed in a room or cellar where the temperature temper-ature does not rise above 70 degrees de-grees F., and marketed two or three times a week. Blood rings are caused by the development of the embryo of a fertile eggs and its subsequent death. It is impossible to hatch an infertile eggs or cause a blood ring to form in one. It is generally gener-ally considered that eggs become infertile from 7 to 14 days after the male bird is removed from the flock. Reapeted experiments have shown that where fertile and infertile eggs are kept under similar conditions, the fertile eggs spoiled much quicker, due to the fact that they deteriorate faster than infertile eggs in the average summer temperature. Summer heat has the same effect, as the hen or incubator on fertile I eggs. Sell, kill or confine the male bird as soon as the hatching season is over. |