Show experience demonstrates fat hen Is best layer we often hear bear the remark s hes too fat to lay this I 1 know to be bd a mistaken idea dea as I 1 have had experience in forty odd years with both fat and poor hens and have always found the tat fat lien hen to be a layer writes hart 11 arrison in the farm farin journal while it iff 19 not necessary for her to be I 1 do not believe she ever gots gits too fat to lay fay well tito the boot Is on the other foot it la Is the peor poor lien ken that never lays well and often not at all A hen to be in the best possible laying condition must have considerable surplus fat in her body this means that her hep bodily wants have been supplied and Is some food or fat to spare such a hert hen tins has surplus vigor strength and energy which cause her ber to lay well A poor lien hen has scarcely enough energy and strength to keep body alive to nothing of pro producing ducIne eggs common sense should teach us |