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Show WHICH ARE BETTER LAYERS? Poultrymen Are Debating Whether Hen cr 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, an 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 sides, Bays 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 eggs 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 bo-cause bo-cause they lay so many eggs which, they claim, possess a better flavor than those laid by hens. No one diu-putes diu-putes the fact that pullets lay more eggs than hens. The question of 'ivhich Is the better, hens or pullets, will never be answered an-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 lciy 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 WW Single Comb White Leghorns. Ave months. Therefore It is a vey easy matter to raise pullets so that they will be laying the winter after they are hatched. The eggs of pullets do not hatch as well as those of hens. Not only that, but the chicks do not seem nearly so strong and lively as those hatched ! from hen eggs. For this reason, then, i i writer would advise pullets foi I matfcg- J hona tor hraarip.ra. |