The businessman’s bird is back! Between 1972 and 1973 an old friend of the commercial egg producer quietly slipped from view. Most producers call her the test feathered friend they ever had. They’ve missed the “old” B-300 sorely in the last few years. And they’ve told us so. When the “old” B-300 - - we call her the B-300V - - retired from Random Sample Testing in 1973, she had an unmatched record of consistent performance. More importantly, she was a legend in her time. . .in the field. . .in your poultry house. She made businessmen out of thousands of poultrymen. She was the standard to which com petitive strains compared their performance. The B-300V was nearly perfect for the times. But we knew that times were changing. We knew that tomorrow’s top layer had to have a stronger eggshell. We were committed to making the B-300V Consistency: The only layer to place first or seo (lOFCC) in every USDA 2 - year o Random Sample Summary betweei and 1973, her last year of entry Efficiency: The top average feed converter in the USDA 2 - year combined Random Sample Summaries of any bird entered for more than 2 consecutive years between 1966 and 1973. (With the exception of another Babcock strain entered between 1970 and 1973.) Reliability: The B -300 V is a time - tested perfon farm, under the real - life'conditions yo day - in and day - out. That’s how she “businessman’s bird”. . .the first choice producers wherever eggs arc produced at profit! t.— i i'.; , vA- .-Ji EftBCOCK BABCOCK FARMS /p.o. box 285/lititz, pa. 17543 PHONE: (717) 626-8561 me i Babcock, B'3OOV tomorrow’s top layer. Tomorrow is here. For the past 5 years, the B-300V has been in a concentrated program of eggshell improvement. It has paid off in results. . .without sacrificing the performance that made her your top choice in the “good old days.” Dust off your old records and take another look. Better yet, ask your Babcock distributor for his latest performance data on the B-300V. Try a flock. Compare it to the best of your present stocks. We know you’re going to be pleas antly surprised. The businessman’s bird is back. . .and better than ever before. The B-300V. Something new is hatching at your Babcock distributor’s. . .today! 1 / Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 4.1976 Performance: Legendary 90 9b plus peaks, and consistent, top egg production throughout the laying period. 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 •Early shell strength measured at 36 weeks of age; late shell strength at 68 weeks of age. Improvement: Measured 1976 eggshell crushing strength improve aents of 15 % in early lay weeks) and 30.8 9b in late weeks). B -300 V’s hatched ' will have stronger shells in than they did in early lay EGGSHELL i STRENGTH iCK LAYERS, 1972 - 1977* 7 ssjS.