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Show ji wiyiy.,.iii- ' - PROFITABLE AS EGG LAYER Brown Leghorn Hen, Six Years Old, Stops Laying Just Long Enough to Hatch' Out Brood. As to the age limit of profitable egg production there are many exceptions to this rule. Some hens are never profitable egg producers, while others may be profitable for years. I have a three-fourths grade Brown Leghorn that is nearly six years old and she has not stopped laying since early last spring long enough to hatch a brood of chickens, says a writer in an exchange. ex-change. She got broody last April and was given eggs, but she sat but a few days until ehe quit her nest and was laying again In a short time. She has been almost a continual layer up to this date, and is still laying. Much if the time rhe laid an egg every lay. The regular profit of $1 per fowl seems to satisfy the average poultry-man. poultry-man. This Is wrong, for ;o one should be satisfied In any line of work, Rose Comb Brown Leghorn. hut constantly striving for better results re-sults and larger profits. Two and three dollars per fowl is a possible profit and is being attained by some men in the poultry business today. The secret does' not lie in the fowl or the variety, but in the human brain. Let us all study more carefully care-fully the rules and principles that govern poultry culture. Let us strive to increase the profit in our flocks, nd thus each year set up a new standard for the succeeding year. By thought, perseverance and persistence great things can be accomplished with poultry. |