| Show TAKING AD ADVANTAGE ANTAGE OF HIGHER PRICES The high egg market last fall was In the latter part of November The records Indicate that tho the tendency Is for the high spot In the market to advance advance ad advance ad- ad vance earlier In the fall The problem problem lem em of the person who Is Interested In making his poultry pay Is how to prepare to take talie advantage of ot these high prices Pull Pullets ts which began laying late In October frequently lay during the tho entire entire entire en en- tire winter hinter Pullets which are developed developed de do- too early begin laying e early In October and then begin to molt and unless they are exceptionally well fed they will not begin laying again until spring If It Leghorns are ure hatched before April 1 and are rue well grown they will Nicely likely start la laying early In October Under good growing rations a Leghorn will mature In about days Some growers can carry their early hatched pullets along more mote slowly and prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent them from toying laying much before the first of November In order to do this they feed very little meat scrap and other high protein feeds and feed considerable ground oats and other bulky fee feeds s which grow a good frame but which do not hasten husten the maturity of the birds The Time heavy breeds which are slower maturing will lay better In the fall If It hatched earlier than April February and March larch pullets of the breeds such as Plymouth Rocks Rhode Island Reds Red s and will bo be about th the the- e right stage of ot maturity for tor November r eggs It U they are grown gro on a n good ra ra- tion One trouble with a good many producers producers pro pro- producers Is that they do not feed teed their them r pullets so that they mature quickly enough so as to start laying in th the e fall In other words you have tw two o eo sources of trouble In getting pullets t to tolay tolay o lay In November One is the hatching of ot Leghorns too early and thereby y having them go Into a molt thereby y losing production In the winter from fromI m that source The other trouble Is o on n I account of late chicks and slow Blow d development development de de- which results In the pullets pullets pul pul- lets leta not laying until the time greater par part t of the time winter Is over and the period perio d of high egg prices has passed |
