Some Results of Predicting Records that Pullets Will Make

Abstract

In Walter Hogan’s system he has laid down rules for not only ruling out the poor producer and saving the good one at the end of the laying period, but also a method whereby the record of the pullet can be accurately estimated at the beginning of her laying period. Mr. Hogan consented to have his system checked by the trapnest and Helen Dow Whitaker reports the results in the April issue (1918) of the Reliable Poultry Journal. One year Mr. Hogan predicted the egg production of each and every pullet entered in the All Northwest Laying Contest held at Pullman, Washington, after he had carefully examined them and applied his system—In the report by Helen Dow Whitaker are the predicted records as estimated by Hogan together with the actual records as shown by the trapnest. By rearranging the data presented into three charts some interesting facts are brought . . .