| Show LEGHORN IN FAVOR 0 produce eggs cheaper than fowls of so general purpose breeds MOST profitable TO KEEP pact fact established in rather exit extensive feeding test conducted by pout poul tye thymen of f the department of f agriculture ore from m the tha unit united a st states department of 0 ag agriculture 3 leghorns Leg horns borns produce eggs cheaper chaa the hens ol of the general purpose breeds breedi plymouth nor s ily ft bottea rhode a island reds red and ad this fott cold confirms hire the ex pe nence ot comme commercial tal poultry firm farm ers me one of the results obtained 1 in a rather exter extensive sive feeding tt t t re cettley cee tty reported ity by poultry mea 0 of the united stotts status department of arco turn because they lay as many or at more are eege eat only beat about fifty five pu pounds mis of feed per head as aa court compared d 1 with I th seventy eaty to eighty it five pounds eat en an h by y the general purpose breeds and their bal because a u their egg yield very materially exceeds that of 0 general purpose breeds during their second and third laying years dellmin leghorns Leg LeLl horns min the specialists I 1 say any undoubtedly are more profitable a to in keep tor for the production of eggs only resu result it of feed test 7 in this test the teed feed cost of a dozen eggs for one me ot of the leghorn peas WAS cents apts in 1913 while the average east cost of all the pens ot at the general purpose breeds was 10 Q bemb in 1014 2914 the tha feed cost t of a it dozes eggs egg tor far the same pen of 1 leghorn leghorns Leg horns was we 17 adma dma cents as ganat against on aa average a cost cast of 15 1 cents centa tor for the second laying year of the abs general purpose peas during their third laying year the toe cost if ot of a doyen dome eggs was 8 8 cents compared comp ed to 18 6 cents cants for the general purpose ao a fowl the in tout total value in of eggs per hen ben over teed feed cost at in alie it L leghorn alpo pen for films years was SG 6 64 also for tile tho general purpose hens the T he beghe as g production obtained I 1 m nay gull tit of the fill f tiding ill 9 experiments up to 1915 wag b by a P pen of oc leghorn leghorns Leg horns witch chita laid 1576 6 egg ir is r hen he at a feed cost at ot 1 07 a 7 met cents it a dozen close th the leghorn leghorns Leg horns pro produce a bergs ergs in than an the general P purpose w breed breeds the ff liv v rag of 0 the egg eggs of a pen of f leghorns Leg horns duties during the first laying y year vai 1 43 pounds p d per dozen dean as 8 against to pounds for the ta oth other r pens dem however leghorns Leg horns lartis laying e egg weighing wel shing pounds per do dob en 11 or even also more are the ill IP specialists im say have b been len selected and bred by me many DY poul poultry men an examination in may M ay 1915 ot at agga 99 fr from three leghorn pan peon showed that 31 per cent weighed more mom than two ounces apiece or ISO pounds plumb to the dozen do value of eggs egg 1 the I be aa value per at ako doyen n of the eggs pro it buted 4 by the he leghorns Leg horns was from I 1 to t tents mats lues each year the than the aga nf if general P purpose rpyal hena this differ difference eme is op it due ral to the fact that the grant genei it A pu purpose b reeds breeds are better winter lay els cis than the leghorn Leg horni while tile fail hattei g give a higher brodu production e ion in th the a spring and summer very few f sw leghorns Leg le elmr horns ing be come broody which probably pro bibly material I 1 ly affects their egg yield as com compared paree with the general purpose breeds let bet fr ter fertility 1 in the eggs especially espedal lj nith stock confined to the yards 1 more often secured in lugworm Legh than ith tile the general purpose or an 3 of the heavier breeds |
