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Show CULLING THE LAYING FLOCK Poultrymen, as Rule, Keep Too Many Fowls for Their Accommodations Accommoda-tions Sell Drones. Have you sold or otherwise removed all the superfluous males from the poultry flink? If not, this should be done as soon as possible. Then next In order Is the weeding out of all undesirable un-desirable hens. Someone will say: "Why, If I do thst I will not have aa many layers left aa I should koep." To this I say, weed them out notwithstanding, and then If you find your flock too small, go out and buy, even though you have to pay more per pound or per bead than you aold for, writes W. J. Cooper In Michigan Parmer. I know that It Is sometimes hard to locate people who will sell their pullets, or even desirable de-sirable yt-arllngs or twoyear olds, but j If you will get out and hustle you can 1 find them, as there Is always someone making a rlmnge of some kind and letting the pullets go. I know of no j way In which a little time can be ; more profitably spent than In picking up desirable bunches of young bens. There are different waya of going about this. Your butcher buys chick, ens. Find out when he has a bunch of pullets coming In and be there when they arrive. If they suit you, 1 the price will always buy them. There are always a few sales being made by people ft ho are making changes or are moving away. He "Johnny on the spot" at these and ' you ran usually find a few nice fowls ' at least. Dut If you csnnot locate 1 them In any other way just make It 1 known locally that you are In the ' market for good laying stock and by 1 offering a premium ot a cent or more ' on the pound you can nearly always 1 find someone willing to sell some. 1 In any event do not keep old or 1 scrubby stock. You don't want the 1 hen that Is always found on the top 1 roost during working hours. She Is J the easiest to catch of all and the easiest to replace aa her value la 1 merely that of a drone. What you ! Silver-Laeed Wyandotte Cock. want Is workers, and workers that are ut singing at their work. ' Did you ever watch the hen with ' the "song?" You wtll almost always And she has a good egg record. Show me a flock of hens with a gladaome rackle, and I will show you a flock of i hens that Is In the egg business every t dsy of the week. When I approach i a silent poultry yard during working hours I naturally feel that there la a something wrong there either sickness sick-ness or worthlessness from age of other cauaea. J A hen that has the proper Instincts, I wanta to be doing something every working minute. That she Is not par tlcular whether It be In your favorite panry bed or not Is "another atory." i The acraggy legged hen la usually found on the roosts. However, she la sometimes a good layer, but as a rule she ts a losing proposition and usually one of the first affected by disease. Her condition Is usually a symptom of a poor constitution. Anyhow, It Is safer to get rid of ber. Poultrymen, aa a rule, keep too many fowls for their accommodations. Bo In weeding out the old ones and the drones you hsd better err on the side of retaining too few rather than too many. You may have accommoOa-tiona accommoOa-tiona for 10; If ao, don't try to kep 1.500. Or your capacity may be HO or 100; tht-ti don't kcp 125 or 200. At any rate, only keep the number and kind of fuala that psy you a profit. The SilverLared Wyandutte ts the original of the Wyandotte family, and enjoyed a considerable boom back In the fO's. Herause of the difficulty of breeding them with good marking it ha been eclipsed In popularity by the Whltea. but it has not b en aurpaaaed ; by any of the new breeds or varieties j tn utility qualities. j I |