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Show POULTRY FACTS Eggs are about 65 per cent water. wa-ter. The higher the blunt end of the egg rises out of water, the older the egg is. A hen laying 150 eggs a year Is worth three times as much as one laying 90 eggs. . A very cheap but satisfactory laying house for pullets can be made from baled straw, either rye or flax. Perhaps the two most Important necessities of poultry are pure, clean water and well-ventilated houses. About 11 per cent of the weight of an egg Is the shell as compared with about 32 per cent for the yolk and 57 per eent for the white. Egg producers of Missouri have Instituted a campaign for the production pro-duction of higher quality eggs and for selling eggs on a graded basis. It will be found that hens In their second year often accumulate fat about the egg organs, causing shell-less, shell-less, double-yolked and misshapen eggs. Copperas Is not a worm remedy for poultry. It is sometimes fed to chickens but It has no value, excepting ex-cepting as It may be used In a mineral min-eral feed. Of the 1.1D0 pullets entered In the two western New York laying tests, 8S0 were White Leghorns, 150 Rhode Island Reds, and 110 Barred Plymouth Rocks. Size of ecrgs laid by well-grown hens Is entirely a matter of breeding breed-ing and cannot he controlled hy so simple a means as selecting large eggs for hatching. |