Show SELECTION OF HENS FOR WINTER LAYERS fowls should be banded or punched in web of foot Is enabled to cull out ou it older stock whenever desirable and keep pullets for further production of eggs prepared ly by tho united states department ot of defore before the pullets ore mixed with the older fowls lie bo sure that tile hens tire arc blinded or that the web of the foot la Is punched in some way so BO that you can distinguish between the pullets and the lie hens in ili this way the older stock may be culled out whenever it tipp enrit desirable and the young liens kept for further furt lier laying do not keep liens hens of the alie heavier breeds for egg production over two yours years but some of the lie best beat lions liens may inny bo be kept for breeders bleeders bre eders until three tr foury four henrs enrit old old leghorns Leg horns enn cin be kept profitably for egg production for three years tile pullets that mature early in ili the full fall and that molt late into us its liens are usually the best layers and should ile ho saved for stock cull call tile chickens which are broucht into the laying house carefully and fatten anti and market till nil chickens which tire small poorly developed or lit in poor condition those small poorly developed chickens are bupt to catch cold it put in with the other poultry and develop diseases which quickly spread through the lock flock in order coget th greatest egg afo production in tho the early full unit winter it la Is essential to have leavo avil wi ll matured pullets which were hatched batched in binsch or april or even earlier in the south ein ciu states lly BY early hatching ind and by supplying rood good conditions for egg production more eggs will be produced in tho the fall and winter while a larger proportion of liens hens will go broody varly early lit in tile tho spring thus completing the essary circle for early egg production |