Show to increase egg output eliminate broody fowls not enough attention to the broody lien problem Is given by the average this meglert Is one ot of the reasons for low pro production luction of eggs by some flocks during the spring points out jo J 0 taylor tailor associate exten extension sicil in poultry husbandry bt at the new jersey agricultural experiment station the llie trac practice tice generally followed by successful poultry men Is to confine nil all broody liens hens to crates or pens each bird Is 18 handed with a celluloid leg band a different color being used for each month by leg banding the broody hens it Is possible to identify alln tham later inter in tile lie year and eliminate them from the breeding pen after a bird has two or three bands she Is sent to market the broody hens are collected about twice a week to be confined to the pens while thus confined they are given ghen water mash and green teed feed this feeding plan puts them in condition so they will resume production am 0 soon as they are over their desire to set |