Show Ten December Eggs s Worth 20 Ma May Eggs S The average farm hen lays less than GO CO eggs a year ear and she lays them during the season of lowest 1 prices It is quite possible to Increase in increase In- In crease the egg profits from the farm stock says Dr M M. M A. A Jull poultry husbandman of the U. U S. S Department of or Agriculture by developing developing developing de de- a flock that will not only produce more eggs i In a year but butwill butwill will produce them in the fall and I winter Ten eggs laid in December December Decem- Decem I ber ber bel he says are worth 20 laid in I April and May A study of the trend in the aver age ge monthly farm prices from 1910 1910 to 1924 shows that the lowest wholesale egg prices prevail in April and that there Is a slight Increase increase increase In in- in- in crease in Jul July and August with a amore amore more l perceptible increase beginning I 1 in September The highest price is reached in December The Im j important point for farm flock owners owners owners' to realize is that it takes tales fewer eggs i from October to January to pay par for a given quantity of feed than during any other time of the year car Although the price of grain or of eggs egos can not be controlled on the thet I farm egg egg l production can be regula regulated ted led to considerable extent I I The Thea ability to lay eggs is inherit ed To develop an laying egg J I 1 strain requires careful selection and the adoption of a consistent breading breed bread I ling ing policy The average rage farm hen hon should not only lay 13 at least eggs In a year ear but most of them should be laid from October to March This can be accomplished He Heby by building up the flock from selected females that have these characters with the males produced b by such females Four guides to Improvement are the selecting each year of 1 those hens which mature mature mature ma ma- ture early 2 those which lay best after the they begin 3 those which seldom go broody brood and 4 those j which lay well throughout the late i summer and fall Furthermore re it itis is Important to hatch the chicks as i early as possible Inasmuch as the the general purpose pullet does not begin begin begin be- be gin laying laing until seven months old it is that October or November November No No- vember layers should be hatched in J j March or April 1 1 j 1 |