Show Consistent Layer Will i Molt 1 Late in Season Most hens stop laying when they begin to molt It Is a fact no longer lor i disputed that R a hen iii hi order to make a hl high h yearly record must be a con con- ut In Ia er Th Theor eor early moltIng hen henIs' henIs henIs Is Is' Is not a consIstent layer lt er She takes all the tall fall months as n a vacation for changing her plumage The consistent t tIa Ia layer er mOI ate and grow grov h her r new plumage rapidly The hen that under normal conditions condi- condi molts na early will not lay Iny its liS many winter es eggs us as the hen that molts late Neither will she boghi egg pro diction earlier In the he spring No deft elate date nn an LIe be set n as t to earl early molt molt- In ing As Ii a general Jeneral rule hor hn er ever the first hen m II the flock flock tL tar DlO molt should he sold inu the last to molt be kept pt for breeding purposes ses Hc us may he thrown Into on nn early molt h by starving In heavily hy by irregular I feeding by roasting In a 1 ahouse house that Is pl or in any way that ten tends Irs suddenly to ch check l' l egg Moo from any ot of these causes es should he 4 avoided n ns as It ItIs itis Is likely to result In u a lower total e egg If the pullets lire are hatched early they will he ll layng n In the lie falland fall and inns tilt egg eg production kept up 1 at t a nil II seasons |