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Show Poultry Notes Hatch from stock that will raise the type and production level of your flock. Sprouted oats, fed to growing chickens chick-ens when green feed is scarce, will prevent nutritional roup, or A-Vita-ruinosis. Eggs for hatching should he fairly uniform in size and shape. Eggs that are vei.v large or very small, misshapen, mis-shapen, checked, or very bloody should not he set. 1 ... I Hens kept foi breeding purposes can lie hastened back in production by limited use ol lights from January IS until March without any apparent effect on hutchnhility ot eggs. Lights make it possible to carry early hatched pullets through the first fall and wintei production jeriod with much less molting than when lights are not used. When is a hen old? For laying pur-Itoses pur-Itoses a pullet becomes an old hen with liei first moult Willi the first and each succeeding moult a hen's capacity lor laying eggs decreases directly In proportion to the number of moults in her life cycle. On most farms turkey raising has become a gamble. So much so that turkeys are .becoming extinct In many sections. Eggs not more than eight days old are best for hatching. Those held longer than one week are scarcely safe to use. . The most Important thing In breeding breed-ing for egg production is to Identify the gooil producers that have the ability to prodncv good layers anil use their blond in the flock. Vigor should tie the first consideration consid-eration in breeding Tor egg production produc-tion " Promiscuous breeding Is always unsound, and is one of the commonest common-est causes of a rapid ret road Inn from a high producing Mock to a mediocre one. Artificial lighting to Increase egg pmduvi Ion nt least during the season "I blub prices, is fund.- nt.-illy sound and has gical potential possibility. |