{"id":611,"date":"2008-05-19T18:12:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T18:12:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-19T18:12:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T18:12:24","slug":"interesting-articel-on-early-egg-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/interesting-articel-on-early-egg-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Article on Early Egg Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattpoultry.com\/eggindustry\/article.aspx?id=8784\"><strong>Watt Poultry<\/strong><\/a> article gives a pretty good rundown of the early egg industry, marred mostly by a few patches of garbled numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The authors correctly identify the pioneering breeders who changed the egg industry in the first third of the 20th century (including James Dryden, whose book I need to reprint some day) and have some interesting tables of productivity per hen. <\/p>\n<p>The numbers giving the amount of labor required per hen are garbled, but the numbers that report how many hens represent a full-time job at different technology levels are correct. 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