Average Yield Of Eggs

Thongta in exoeptional instanoes individu il h us will lay 150 to 200 oggs per iiniiutn, yet. whon several hundred head are kfpt, the average is not generally over ten or eleven dozen. When we kept (WO fowls ourselves, erubracing tigbt or ten different breeilfi, and conoted the eggs daüy, yeai after year, wa averaged never over 180 eggs per hen ■ ■.■■!■, and in some tnstanoes us low us 115. But we bolievo that by prolonged Belectiou of the best layers, generation :U'if,r generation, autl skillfnl tgemeut, huadreds of i'owJs can bo made to yield an average óf a gross per aunnui. - -Voultry Van'.