Show f r Yr Y YI I EARLIEST HATCHED CHICKS ARE BEST i Experiment Shows the April Pullets Produce Good Eggs Colo Colo- Colorado Colorado from In rado show that the tendency to earlier Is 1 a foothold successful breeders Parly chIcks moke better winter layers they ha e found the rapid develop develop- development development ment In the earl hatched early chick re results suits in more economical I of broilers The cold weather wather of this season ot the scar seems to give gI much greater I In n short period of ot time while those that are hate hatched late and during the warm weather are slower In their development Cold weather seems to retard the sexual de thus holding back egg untIl warmer weather DC- DC ac according cor cording ln to observations of ot Charles N Keen of the poultry 1 department at the Agricultural college If It pullets are raised from late late- late hatched ha eggs and pushed for production production tion tile they attain n sexual maturIty the body maturity Is hen the first eggs produced will be small and continue so until body ma ma- maturIty maturity Is completed In the he case of lI light ht breeds such as Leghorn these s which have been forced break breakdown breakdown down under heavy heay production and go Into a winter neck molt and often a full molt With the larger breeds there ma may be less les of ot this trouble thE late hatched birds but they nrc harder to force fone Into laying It takes approximately five fire months to mature a L Leghorn or Ancona pullet and ap- ap approximately ap approximately proximately sc en months to mature Island Reds Heds Hocks Wan Wyan-dottes Wyan dottes and other birds of ot the larger bre ds They be la laying not later than November ember 1 and not ear ear- earlier earlier lier than September 1 for best results |