Egg Production and Standard Bred Poultry from the Investigator's Standpoint

The advocates of standard bred poultry are undoubtedly right in insisting that standard bred poultry may be good layers. This is abundantly demonstrated by numerous high class standard bred birds that are also high layers. I know from personal experience of several strains of standard bred Rhode Island Reds that can be depended upon to produce several birds out of each hundred, that will lay better than 200 eggs.

I have great faith, too, that it is possible to combine in one strain, the qualities of high average production, as distinct from high individual production, and the qualities demanded by the standard. If an average of 150 eggs per bird is considered high, I feel confident that some, at least, of the strains mentioned above, without further selection, can be handled so as to come very close to such an average.

High and low, in relation to egg production are …