Show early molting bolting hens Aeri pAre are poor paying proposition what Is tile the trouble with file ho poultry business why are fewer liens hens kept this year yearl Is the poultry bust busl ness going backward all these questions and ninny many more like them havo have been asked recently what Is the trouble with the hie poultry business would not any other business tail fall if it were condil conducted eted us as tile the poultry busi business noss Is conducted every fei female nilie kept ts li not necessarily a good money maker pinkei some liens hens never lay some lay a few eggs but it takes a lion lien that lays a good q quantity ity of eggs to pay for her feed and return a f fair a ir profit above labor interest etc it has been proved beyond doubt t eliat Ia early molting bolting hens are poor producers liens hens that begin to shed their feat feathers liers in july arid and august seldom start to lay before tire the latter part of january or the early part of february many poultry men realize the necessity noc of culling put out their poor producers prod c ers in norderto order to stay in the poultry business with the lie present prices of feed it Is absolutely essential ll 11 that thai only tile the best hens lets be kept one farmer last year selected from laying liens 10 1 that hel he considered poor producers no trap nests were used but tile the liens hens were examined from external characteristics te these liens hens were put in a bou house soby by themselves the following day they laid four eggs the flock was again tested and the four layers were selected leaving an even hundred unproductive liens hens they were ere carefully watched tor for several weeks and did not lay an egg at last they were sold similar Sifi rilar instances prove that the selection of poultry pays why pot save the tremendous amount of feed fed the poor hens s and put it into better stock or human food foo a increase production and increase by keeping the late mol nol hatch in S september r find and thus In increase k the meat and egg supply of tile the couet cou try fall hatching hate hing of chickens iiii pay pullets pileta from these hatches will take tile the place of tile the early holters disposed of breed only from the late holters mol selection Is a big step toward greater poultry arid and to a more profitable poultry business |