Show value of good hen Is found in egg record while nil all hens bens cannot be expected to lay as many eggs as a few of the most outstanding individuals nevertheless the exceptional individuals show the pot ability of improvement so it Is worth while to occasionally call attention to some of the better records 0 A barton of the poultry department of the north dakota experiment station reports the record made by a single rhode island hen ben in a two year period this hen produced eggs in two years or eggs the first year and the second year this lien hen consumed pounds of feed during the two years or only about twice as much feed as the weight of the eggs produced the market value of the eggs was 10 for the two years while the feed cost was 2 in other words this hen made a gross profit above feed cost of 4 per year iier her average feed consumption was about tour four pounds for each dozen eggs produced thus her feed cost was less than 5 cents per dozen eggs figures of this sort should encourage poultry producers to keep egg records and continue breeding from their most precious hens mated with males from high producing stock wallaces F farmer armer |