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One breeder has the climate, green food, good houses, artificial lights, etc., while another is not so well fixed and natural conditions will forever prohibit all from being on an equal basis for the entire year.

The best test we have ever applied to the performance of hens is to use 100 days as a time measure of performance and take this 100 days when the handicaps are least and the hen is doing her best. It is the one test that will apply to all breeds and varieties in all climates and under all conditions the best and it is the one test which will place all breeders on one common level.

The year is more of a false standard or theory for to say a hen laid 240 eggs in one year, leaves much unsaid for under other conditions she might have produced over 300 eggs.

The hen which lays 100 eggs in 100 days we call a 100% hen. The hen which lays 70 eggs in 100 days is a 70% producer, etc. Call the number of eggs produced in the 100 days a per cent.

Some say well the low producer will spur up and lay a large number for that length of time, but would not lay many during the year. This shows that they have not observed the performance of their hens in this respect, and if they will just keep their records for about six months and then take each hen's highest 100 consecutive days they will be surprised to see the number of twenty and thirty per cent hens which show up, and may never have the opportunity of seeing a 100 per cent hen.

We have seen and handled 300 egg hens but have never seen a 100% producer or a hen which laid 100 eggs in 100 days.

The 100 day test is a far more reliable guide in selecting and breeding for egg production for it does not play as many tricks on the breeder as the year's record does, such as a hen laying twelve months without a moult and making a high record but without a moult, then the next year moult twice and show a low record then too some years and climates make a great difference.

If you say you have a hen which produced 250 eggs in one year, it means very little unless you give further information as to where it was, etc. But if you say you have an 80% hen it means something definite.

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