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Show ft Fjl IN HOLDS WORLD'SRECORD Qjetn Jtana Produce? 816 Eggs I Five Years he Ua.h Agriculture College has j. uccd a hen with a world's record. rec-ord. Queen Utana, is Utah's champ-on champ-on egg layer for five years. Weighs three and one-half pounds, as the eraje for the entire five years, '.vir-f this period the hen has produced pro-duced 107 pounds of eggs, or a fraction frac-tion less than thirty times her own weight. The fifth year ended Nov. ii14. During her career Utah's new champion laid 816 eggs, averag-d averag-d 2.1 ounces apiece. There have teen hens known to lay more eggs in one year than this hen laid in any oe year, or more in three years than this hen laid in any three years, but 1 never'one to lay that number in five years. I For eight years the experiment station at the Utah Agriculture college col-lege has been selecting and breeding in its poultry department in an effort ef-fort to produce just such a fowl as I this, a hen that could lay consistent- ly and abundantly for five consecu-j consecu-j tlve years. Eight years ago this experiment was begun with some pure breed chickens. After three years careful testing and selection, a number of hens were chosen, and from this number has come the Queen Utana. The object of the experiment station sta-tion was to produce a flock of hens that would increase the egg production, produc-tion, and at the same time have Vitality Vi-tality to prolong their usefullness for a period of years. The average length of the life of a hen at present is only two or h'-ee years. The average hen only lays 8 7 eggs a year, In three years producing only 261 eggs. Fifteen other hens at the college, ranging from five to seven years of age, have laid over 700 eggs each. Another group of thirty-nine hens have' laid over 600 eggs in a time covering four to seven years. The following is the record of ttd single "omb, White Leghorn Hen, Queen Utana. erage weight of hen (Queen ! Utana), 3.5 pounds; average weight of eggs, 2.1 ounces; total weight of eggs laid in five years, 107 pounds: total number of eggs laid, 810. First Year's Record Egg record: First year, 195; second sec-ond year, 183; third year, 138; fourth four-th year,161; fifth year, 129. Feed of hen during five years: Wheat, 170 pounds; corn, 50 ounds; oats, 25 pounds; barley, 20 pounds; bran 33 pounds; shorts, 30 pounds; beef scraps, 18 pounds; 'een bone, 15 pounds; buttermilk, 35 pounds; oyster snen, o pouuua The cost of this feed for the five years was $6.25. The value of the, e;rs at 35 cents a dozen would be 28.80, making a net profit of $17,55 for the entire five years. Thus the divestment is trebled and more by he productiveness of this little three and ahalf pound hen. According to conservative estimates, esti-mates, if the other hens in Utah were doing as well as this one, Utah's egg production would be more than thribbled, so we can readily see the value of a hen of this kind. If all of our hens could be made to produce pro-duce such as this one, it would mean more to the state of Utah than a gold mine, or an industrial factory of mammoth proportions. It would ..ean $2,721,990.00 increase to the farmers, annually. Utah is importing, at the present time, nearly as much poultry and eggs as she is producing. The short Kve. and the cost of rearing and hatching chickens, ha been the rreatest drawback to the poultry in-Zt in-Zt in Utah. The fact that hens of this kind can be produced and net |