Show FAL 1 SELECTION OF LA INCREASES FLOCK efficiency AND YIELD OF EG I 1 Z N A W A during late sum summer every poultry owner should be detective L enough to spot the loafer aad shirker hens prepared by tile the united states department ot of agriculture sherlock holmes used high power llero scopes chemicals fingerprint finger inger print records arid and rogues gallery photos in rounding III lip offenders against justice the poultry owner must rely chiefly on the lie past production records of tilt the owl fowl as well as on oil their external hp cp pen pe urance rance condition and general conformation ili li its ills task of separating tit lie chaff from froin the wheat it Is 18 essential that lie KO go through tile the nock flock in late into si summer minier and make it thorough culling discarding till all the piu pilo dubers so they ahry may inny not bo be parasitic on OIA the profits of the lie flock luring the when range Is not available ind and the expenses of feeding the birds are coi correspondingly increased an am li it rulo rule the liens hens which have hava stopped slopped laying by bv the middle of september anre the poorest producers tn tit tho the hock flock nad consequently wilt will be the lowest elders in successive sivo sea seasons seaon on alenco it Is necessary to rid the flocie flock of such lazy drones in order that tho the better producers may be favored in ili care feet feed and general poultry iii humr iiii ug ement when test la Is sea best specialists of the united states department part ment of agriculture say that flint the best and most vastly easily applied test to ascertain the best laying fowl Is tho the late date when the liens hens begin to mot molt t most liens when they start to molt stop laying or nearly cease egg production furthermore it la ii easy to examine the plumage of eacil each lieu hen it in orter order to ascertain whether tiny any pit pin feathers or partially grown f feathers are shown in case the lien hen Is phrot through 1911 thir tho the can convince I 1 himself of that alint condition by tile the pres coce of clenn clean unworn plumage tit in tho th case of the yellow legged bir birds Is tho th cotor color of the legs Is some indication dle di cation atlon of good producing capacity nd nad persistency OE ac tile the hens tend to lose their bright color us its tit the libring season iwason lesses eg good coot pro illic cis usually have white or palo pale yellow legs legi luring during abe late stun summer nier anil and vorly corly fall while poor producer ti will how biow fnlund or 1 I meditina yellowish begs tr if the ilic flocia liaa has nc cesi to j iril 10 krai range tit the birds ns its a rule w hlll 11 mantillo maNtil ln their leg lee color longer than limn were thero there Ls iff little ottlo grass or where here only bare farhi ore are provided AccordI accordingly naly on oil the grass ginsa not ns as ingeb la Is riven given to leg color comb Is an indicator tile color of tho beak tipp liles along similar line except that it and irs more rapidly than the pigment nt li in atle tlc legs furthermore the ho of if tin tilt comb Is tin an indication of or bof not tile the lien hen Is laying the bird with the red comb which Is full of blood and thoroughly expanded usually Is inyang while tit the fowl having it comb which Is sin smaller aller shrunken und dull roil red in color harder und and covered with whiter scales Is ordinarily dina rily not laying generally ing in a laying lien hen usually Il shows greater be bew can the pelvic bones two bones are felt as coln points ts on either side of the back in tile tho ense case of fetig which are laying tile the pelvic bone foti feel aind ind more flexible ualle there is it fi thread alread of two fingers or more between them A sni smaller aller spread usually ln dAtes the licit lie Is s not laying las ing usually ao ofle lay layloff lug lien hen shows show tt a greater of the ali nh dontA which inny oe measured by I 1 ii ladrig i the liel tie tween the pelvic bones bone an antl the id d ol at the keel in the cas nl of 0 tile sina icle birds such oa the th spread of ab domert eo finger or more inore whiled with hordij seeh as the 1 plymouth rock aock the parol ml i tour four fingers or larye the kayin lien usual ly IT ilas has in an abri alisi omen which Is 13 softer and more flexible and feels feel like the partly M milked out udder of a cow when the hill Is riot not laying tile lie ts is harder and more contracted CoArd colder der all factors any AMY lien hen flint shows signi of if sick ness or generally debilitated condition should bo be wiled polled froni from the flock in forming n opinion its as to whether ord on not the heu tell Is laying wv to favor lr lir retention in the ho Hod cor tor another season or so it IB not navis able to alce too much anillo on tiny one of the he factors discussed above but ct to summarize the ali pear lince nid production qualities of each bird anther than linn to rely on oil ns as it cause of coiling certia bertt birins from tile the lock flock gow rally nilly it la is desir fible for tl alj i wn wal to practice continual culling let tile the case of the young stock that to la dispense with the undesirable tow fowl often as they hoy tire discovered dui du the frequent and regular banalla d in tho the birds all pullets imoleta which are thrifty or not doing w should le be culled from the flock same methods can an also be ba practiced practice the ito selection of nf tile the flock for breed bree purposes only the pick of the I 1 fowl being retained in III the breed hock flock |