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Show WHICH ARE BETTER LAYERS? Poultrymen " Are Debating Whether Hen or Pullet Is Capable of Greater Egg Production. No matter how successful we may become In any business we are trying try-ing all the time to find how we may Increase our profits. To Increase our profits means, of course, ah Increase In the output of our goods, whatever It may be. Poultrymen are now debating de-bating whether the hen or the pullet Is capable of the greater egg production. produc-tion. There Is good argument on both Bides, says the American Cultivator. Some claim that while hens lay less than pullets they lay larger and heavier heav-ier eggs, and because of this fact the eggs command a better price than those laid by pullets. This Is true, but In many sections of the United States egg3 are sold without grading, and consequently the smaller egg Is able to command as good a price as the larger one. Others are in favor of pullets because be-cause they lay so many eggs which, they claim, possess a better flavor than those laid by hens. 'No one disputes dis-putes the fact that pullets lay more eggs than hens. The question of which Is the better, hens or pullets, will never be an- Single Comb White Leghorns. swered so that It will please everyone. every-one. It is simply a matter of the likes and dislikes of the individual poultry-man. poultry-man. Personally the writer favors pullets. There are a very few of them that lay undersized eggs, and If he wishes the poultryman can easily cull them out. The average Leghorn pullet commences com-mences to lay when about six months of age, while many of them start at five months. Therefore it is a very easy matter to raise pullets so that they will be laying the winter after they are hatched. A - |