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Show TRAP-NESTING IS ADVOCATED Only Certain Method of Separating Good Layers From the Pjor la to Keep Dally Records. That tho only sure way to know which bens in a flock are doing the work and which are not "earning their keep," is by using the trap-nest, Is the belief of Prof. James Dryden of tho poultry husbandry department of tho Oregon agricultural college. "High egg production Is not a characteristic char-acteristic of any one breed of fowls," says i'rofeaor Dryden. "The trap neat baa demonstrated this. There is no particular shape or type that Indicates good laying qualities, bo far, at any rate, aa our present knowledge goea. "The only certain method of separating sepa-rating the good layera from the poor la to use the trap-nest and keep a dally record of eggs laid. It Is not always al-ways the fault of the feed and care that they don't do better. It Is the misfortune of the hen herself very often; she couldn't lay It she wanted want-ed to. "U require! considerable time to keep a trap-nest record of a flock of bens. Not every farmer has the time, but if a few farmers In every county would trap-nest a Hock of bene, la a few years all the farmers of the county coun-ty would very likely have stock that were from heavy-laying, trBp-nealed fowls. Where it la possible for a farmer to devote a little time to It each day he will be well repaid for '.be labor. "The Oregon experiment station li trap-neatlng a large flock each year and it ia doing the best it can to furnish fur-nish the farmers of that atate with stock from good layers, with the object ob-ject of increasing the egg yield in tho state. It Is desirable, of course, to keep a full year's record for each hen, but If that la not poaalble, a record for a part of the year would be valuable. valu-able. For instance, a record of tho first alz months of laying, beginning probably in November, would show which were tho good whiter producers. |