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Show TRAP NESTS HELP BREEDERS Enable Poultrymen to Find Profit able Layers by Selecting Late Molting Hens. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Trap-nesting hens to find the most profitable layers does not appeal to the average farmer and back-yard poultryman as being practical. Besides Be-sides the original cost of making the nests there is the extra labor required re-quired of looking after the layers. However, some facts that have been I r jpefcjj Profitable Layers Found by Use ot Trap Nest. lenrned as a result of using the trap nest may be applied in the Improve-ment Improve-ment of the flock, say poultrymen ol the United States Department of Agriculture. Ag-riculture. For instance, the trap nest has shown that the late inolter is the most profitable bird In the flock. Now. with the use of the trap nest, a man may select the late molter and be sure that he is picking the cream of the flock. And it seems reasonable reason-able to believe that this characteristic characteris-tic breeds on from generation to generation. |