Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1919 — Egg Production. [ARTICLE]

Egg Production.

The average production of eggs by hens of all kinds and ages In the Unit-, ed States is 85. Unselected White Leghorns, however, produce an average of 130 eggs for the first year, 120 for the second, 110 for the third. 85 for the fourth, and fall off about" ten a year up to the eighth. These figures ment station. If the first year production be low the second will he high ami. vice versa, the total production for three years being about the same.\