Show New Facts acts For I Extensive investigations in breeding breeding breeding breed breed- ing and feeding of poultry were carried on by bj the Bureau of Animal Industry United States Department of ot Agriculture during the last fiscal year ear according to a report of ot the chief of the bureau In ex with wIlh Rhode Island Reds and Single Comb White Leghorns I r for r increased egg production there I I was a higher proportion of egg I records than during any previous year year ear Other experiments with poultry I involved chick mortality hatchI hatchability hatchability hatchability hatch- hatch ability and fertility of eggs InI inheritance in inheritance In- In I I he o of egg production and various experiments in feeding for egg production it was found that omitting limestone a shell forming ingredient from the ration reduced ed egg production 50 per cent |