A SOLTTFI AFRICAN CLAIM.
A South African " farmeress " sends me some interesting details on the value of hens and their average yield. She writes, "I have increased my flock of utility White Leghorns to 650, and for the last three years have averaged 170 to 180 eggs per bird per annum. This was done by selective culling without trap nesting and without cocks of known pedigree. This year I intend to use cockerels of 250 to 300 egg strain and fully expect to raise the average to 200." Does any English poultry farmer achieve this average ? Incident- ally South African co-operative societies, which send us more and more fruit of greater variety, are sending also more eggs in cold storage ; and claim that they are fresher than the Continental eggs on which we spend some 118,000,000 a year.
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