In the breeding of poultry It i«. generally' found that ercat ' vigour on both sides means e, preponderance of cockerels in the progeny. Thus, after the moult, when the birds turn into lay after their spell,, their first eggs produce more pullete than cockerel*, and &b the season wears on and cfoe birds get tired they produce a greater percentage of millets. Cockerels mated with pullets-will give more cockerels than a- cockerel-hen mating. Aleo. it is likely that more cockerels would bo nroduce'd frotr a cockerel with six hens than there would be If he we-running with twelve hens. But nothine is certain, as no man possesses the' key to the sax problem. - INFLUENZA BACILLUS. '" As the Influenza microbe' takes two days to develop, a dose of germ-destroy-ingl "Fkenzdl" every second day will ensure immunity from the dread disease,—Advt,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 63, 9 December 1918, Page 8
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139Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 63, 9 December 1918, Page 8
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