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Show BEST PAYING PULLB& TJV U -C 0 opportunity overlooked for earning Needed cash. AveratFarm Hen Producing an Average Av-erage of Eighty Eggs Annually Returns No Profit Three ( Most Important Points. (By A. F. HUNTKR. a Veteran roultrr lUUer.) r (Copyrlrht. 1S14) Poultry rightly handled Is the best paying live stock a farmer can keep, with the added adnntago ot a comparatively com-paratively srdall investment in buildings build-ings and otj.both quick and constant-cosh constant-cosh returns. This is not true, how ever, of the average farm flocksi which produco no eggs tn the fall and early winter and average, according; to tho last census, less than eighty eggs each In a year. Hens so kept pay no profit whatever If tho cost of i their food is considered. It Is pullets that produco an average of 160 eggs each In a )ear and produce a fair proportion of those eggs In late fall and winter, the season ot highest prices and best profits, that are the money makers. It Is romarkablo that the farmers who would bo most advantaged ad-vantaged by a steady cash return from a flock of good hens are tho most neg-I neg-I lectful ot this opportunity. Good pullets which will produce an i average ot 150 eggs each and pay their ' owner a net profit of $2 each in a year I aro not the common ecrub hens of tho farms: ther tare thoroughbred mil- I lets, bred and reared for egg production, produc-tion, and so reared that they attain laying maturity In the first half of October. To tho farmers who are used to getting no eggs in the fall and early winter this will seem an impossibility, im-possibility, but the thousands of farmers farm-ers who are caBlly accomplishing prove the fact. tf l To accomplish this the three. chief points aro to have tho chicks hatched I the first halt ot April, to keep tho pullets pul-lets steadily growing so that thoy i reach laying maturity the first half of I October and then that they be kept ' steadily laying by good care and good, food. Six months is the normal tlmo i of growth ot a healthy pullet. Six months forwar.l from tho first half of April is tho first half of October, and tho "rightly handled" pullets will bo fully maturo and laying beforo cold weather comes upon them. The chicks hatched ono or two months later aro checked In growth by tho Btrong heat of summer and nro, about halt maturo I when tho cold of coming, winter overtakes over-takes them. Such pullets' lay the bulk ot their eggs during tho months of ! lowest prices and pay Httlo or no' I profit. Thousands of farmers aro mak-. I lng $2 apleco profit early on their pul- i lets, bujing all ot tho good, and as tho demand, for fresh laid eggs Increases I moro rapidly than tho supply there 1 Is alwnys room for others. |