Daily Variation in Flock Production

In Relation to Certification of Egg Records.

Some satisfactory method of certified hen and flock records will no doubt be evolved in time. There are certified cow records, certified potatoes, certified oranges, certified this and that, and there should be certified egg records. Honest breeders are entitled to this protection, and the buying public demands it. The poultry industry needs it. We are all agreed, I think, as to this. The question is, how can it be accomplished?

The purpose, I would say of certifying egg records is a double one. First to encourage good breeders of high class laying stock, and second to protect the public as well as the industry against unscrupulous persons who make misleading claims as to the quality of their stock. In no other agricultural Industry, is there greater opportunity for fraud as in this matter of selling fowls with egg records. On the other …