Show WELL BRED HENS PROVE CHEAPEST hens with good breedl breeding ng often produce two dollars worth ot of eggs la in a year more than bens with increased poor breed 1 log ing aside from their increased value as breeders bleeders bre eders according to experiments on the cornell poultry farm farin at the college of agriculture at itha ithaca ca N T Y this means that if a can got get lowbred low jow bred chicks for nothing he be could afford to pay one dollar a chick for highline high line birds and still make 1 mere mare a year on each bird than from the low line birds Poultry men at cornell point to these facts as evidence that a baby chick costing ten cents may be dear while a costing fifty cents may be a good investment if the higher priced chick comes front froni consistent high pro stock trap nesting pedigree latching hatching and progeny testing T must be used to obtain con consistent consists D t high records the records of the alie hens range from to eggs seventy five per cent of the pedigreed flock laid more than eggs in one year the males are from hens bens with pedigrees pedigreed grees of eggs to eggs one pen of 35 33 pullets on the experiment farm averaged 88 86 eggs a bird during the tour four winter months to march 1 or about 22 eggs a bird a month these eggs were produced during the season of high prices which Is not dot true of birds that do not dot have good breeding the department says the number of birds tint that have hare laid essa eggs lias has increased from SS 33 in 1921 to in 1927 |