Show R N N FAVOR produce eggs cheaper than fowls of so called general purpose breeds MOST MOS profitable TO 10 KEEP fact established in rather extensive feeding test conducted by poul thymen of the department of agriculture from the united states department of 0 agriculture leghorns Leg Legli horns orns produce eggs cheaper than hens of 0 the general purpose breeds plymouth hocks Wyan dottes rhode island reds and this fact which confirms the belief and experience peri ence of commercial poultry farmers was one of the results obtained in a rattier rather extensive feeding test lest re reported by poultry men of the united states department of agriculture because they lay as many or more eggs eat at only about fifty five pounds of feed per head as compared with seventy to eighty five pounds eaten by the general purpose breeds and because their egg yield very materially exceeds that of general purpose breeds during their second and third laying years leghorns Leg horns the specialists say y undoubtedly are more profitable to sl keep for the production of eggs only result of feed test in this test tile the feed cost of a dozen eggs for one of the leghorn pens was cents in 1913 while the average cost of all the pens of 0 the general purpose breeds was cents in 1911 the feed cost of a dozen eggs for the same pen or of leghorns Leg horns was 37 0 cents as against an average cost of cents for the second laying year of the general purpose pens buting their thaid laying year the cost of a dozen eggs was 88 38 cents compared to usg cents for the general purpose fowls the total value of eggs per hen over feed cost in the leghorn pen for three years was against for the general purpose liens hens the highest egg production obtained in any of the feeding experiments up to 1915 was by a pen of leghorns Leg horns horas which laid 1576 eggs per hen at a feed cost of 67 ga cents a dozen the leghorns Leg horns produce smaller egas than tile the general purpose breeds th average weight eight of the hie eggs of a peri pen of leghorns Leg horns during the first laying year was pounds per dozen as aga trist to pounds for the i other pens Ilo however wever leghorns Leg horns laying eggs weighing pounds per dozen or even evea more the specialists say have been selected and bred by many poultry men an examination in may 1915 of eggs from three leghorn pens showed that 31 per cent weighed more than two ounces apiece or pounds to the dozen value of eggs the value e pur per dozen of the eggs produced by th the e from 1 to general purpose liens hens this difference is due to tile the fact that the general purpose breeds are better winter layers than the leghorns Leg Legli horns orns while the battel give a higher production in the sprint spring and summer very few leghorns Leg horns be come broody which probably matei material ial ly affects their egg yield as com compared paree with the general purpose breeds better fertility in the eggs especial IN with stock confined to the yards I 1 is more often secured with leghorns Leg Legli horns orm than the general purpose or an of the heavier breeds |