Show BREED FOR EGG production high laying hens cannot be depend ed ad on to produce chicks a as good as themselves the results of breeding for egg pro dro at thea the ontario nt tie experiment station are aa lot interesting a 8 supplement u ap pp I 1 T t to flou cabled the W work so an long carried on at the maine station it nill kill be remembered that the cimel conclusion md of the males maine at station was that hens with th high laying records cannot be depend depended ool upon to produce che chicas as aa good as ft themselves ev even SO when the males malea or of the a flock are of 0 the same sam stock ak the non ontario marl staff station mc concludes ludo that many egg hens are all not worth much as breeders bleeders bre eders of 0 gg pullets but a few appear as it if their pullets pullet were out of the ordinary and some of their was tons have been very good breed ers in other words the power of 0 transmitting the heava laying quality Is p pos se hessed sed by some individuals in duals but not by otera others this is essentially the idea on which the maine alaine steffen station Is now working with the aim im ot of selecting and using the birds which have this transmitting quality it was found by the ontario station that the chicks hatched botched from these se imhoff birds began to lay much earlier 1 in the fall and laid in november about fie times as many eggs as common pullets their excelle excellence ce we was largely 1 la their power to lay eggs I 1 la D the me fall it and winter in an the summer the common pullets were 0 considered casi dered about as aa good layers as the others |