Show nn colitis laytnt I see you asking for the egg record and as t hato not sent you a letter CorA Cor-a long time thought I would send you a few line now I do not know > onr oJ et In asking for these records whether to compare this year with lass or to see what we are doing this season sea-son At any rate I will Kilo rOil the tralght of It as It Is I with me My I hen park are fifty fret square I that U I fifty feet each way Each park contain n cockerel and six or eight pullet 1 have always stuck up for tho Leghorn and Hamburg still I must ny that this luring my White Vynndolle have kept In the lead at least until they wanted to sit Yet there may bo a reason for them doing 10 well for my Vyandotte are all pullets while my eghorn and Hamburg aro mostly old hens I keep the old hens brcauie I think hey glvo better and stronger chicks even If they do not lay so many rggs I had to use pullet In my Wy nndotto pens AI I had no old Wynn dottr I have averaged In these pens tour or flvo ell n day and that too all ho spring For about two weeks iralght every pullet vf my Wjondollc aid six eggs for eight hen My I Drown > ghorn did about the same My Ham mrgi are a little behind laying about tQ per cent of a posilblo bundled that ho I three or four egg for a pen of ilx hcns For some reason unknown poultry aro not laying 10 well this season sea-son AI for somo ears back Thl Is I true of other nmiltrv III well as of chickens Also the new chicks era not showing up very fast What ate latched out seem very strong anJ healthy Tho old hen nro not so Inclined In-clined lo sit AI formerly Perhaps they have been reading Posters weather report and are putting I oft business for settled weather Hut there Is plenty of limp yet t especially with the small breeds I raised my best chick last rear In June and romo were men hatched In September They were lachted In an Incubator and aro now loping just as well as the chlckn latched earlier Tho best laying my bird ever did for mo wos Ihrra yearn ago Six pullet In April of that year gave mo 152 egg and then one of the gullets was out seven day II C Hunt Taiowell County Illinois |