Show o v WHY flY THAT TILo ROOSTER The three e great handicaps i in lre te marketing of eggs are the small underweight the dirty e eggs gs n and d the fertile eggs The The first mentioned factors grea grear- Iy ly reduce our poultry income but biu butare Ut are in no wise so great in importance as the last Every year rear enormous quantities of our fa firm farm eggs never reach the time ultimate market in an edible edi eam- ble condition because of or their being fertile The fertile egg is eagerlY sought for breeding purposes but bui for tor market it is highly undesirable Such Such eggs will begin to incubate at ti at summer temperatures and once started started on the the hatching road will Wm spoil very rapidly In the larger market centers tons and tons of or such eggs are are- consigned to the glue manufacturer or dump every season In Iu tracing this great reat waste its source has been found that the bulK buo of ot it goes back to the farm A great share of the bad had eggs in the market martet were b bad d before they were marketer A fertile egg that is held for tor a weer during hot s summer weather average farm conditions is Already doomed It may mar find its way the marketing g channels to t the e bl bib bi- markets but it lit loses loses' caste all alo alou the line and fie finally sally g goes es into the dis dIs- card Most of the loss due to fertility in sc e eggs gs may be av avoided ld d by sImp p t I separating T males fr from m the time l toc OC W With the close of hatch hatching season all roosters not needed for another season should be killed off oft or dis- dis i of in some other way |