L'appel de la poule; ou, la science de la sélection et de la reproduction de la volaille pour la production d'oeufs . et la mission de la poule est manifestement et prééminemment la production d'oeufs. Dans ce cas, sa valeur varie ou devrait varier en grande partie avec sa capacité à produire des œufs. Et il est encore bien connu que, alors que chaque animal de ferme a été sélectionné et élevé pour le meilleur il y avait dans sa propre ligne particulière, et tous les prix ont été attribués en conséquence, la poule a été en grande partie et les prix lui ont attribué presque entièrement pour les plumes et les marquages, les juges rarement ou jamais déeming il important de savoir w

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The call of the hen; or, The science of selecting and breeding poultry for egg-production . and the mission of thehen is evidently and pre-eminently egg-production. This being the case, her value varies or should vary largely with her ability to produce eggs.And still it is a well-known fact that, while every farm animal has beenselected and bred for the best there was in it along its own peculiar line, and all prizes have been awarded accordingly, the hen has been bredlargely and prizes awarded her almost wholly for feathers and markings, the judges seldom or never deeming it important to know whether shewas capable of laying at all or not. The writer was amazed to find this state of things when, someyears ago, he turned his attention from managing woolen-mill intereststo trying to manage a poultry-yard. But, in spite of the fact that he THE CALL OF THE HEN 105 was wholly unable to find a bird or strain that were known to be excep-tional egg-producers, he succeeded, within six years after starting, inbuilding up a flock that averaged annually considerably over 200 eggsper hen.. Cut No. 1—A Leghorn hen showing this development has the egg-laying instinctat its maximum. Before deciding to publish this work, I found, after diligent inquiryamong the leading poultrymen of the United States and Canada, andsome correspondence reaching to other countries, that there was no knownmethod—other than the slow and costly one of trap-nesting—of selectingbirds of great egg-producing capacity. Trap-nesting, in addition to thefaults mentioned, which makes it almost impracticable for the farmer, had a still more serious one in the writers judgment; it could not trap-nest roosters, which I have found to be more than half the flock. Forthis seemingly insurmountable difficulty I have found an easy solution, and can as readily identify the male as the female, and as unerringly. The facts of which this document treat are a discovery, a method, and a development all in one. The happy inspi

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