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Show YEARLY EGG LAYING PERIOD Increase Made at Massachusetts Experiment Ex-periment Station by Selection of Pullets. Dr. II. D. Goodale. research biologist in poultry at the Massachusetts Experimental Ex-perimental station, stated that the yearly egg-laying period of a flock of hens at that place had beer, increased by an average of 58 days by egg-selection' egg-selection' from early-laying pullets. This, he said, had resulted In an increase in-crease In the number of winter eggs, raising the annual egg average from 121 to 1S5. Poultry breeders should aim to eliminate broody hens from breeding stock; nlso the birds Idle longest In the winter months. 1 Feed Breeding Ducks Meat. Do not begin to feed the breeding ducks meat food of any kind until two weeks before you wunt eggs for hatching. hatch-ing. If you do they will lay early and then perhaps will not lay when you want eggs "or hatching. |