Show poultry keeping by careful feeding and proper care cars a good laying hen may lay jay as many ai as eggs in in a year but when hundreds hund redi of hens are arg kept kert together on the farm the average seldom reaches one hundred eggs per annum A comparison of the treatment recorded accor dod large and small flocke flocks chows that as a rule the mailer smaller the flock the greater is th the variety offord furnished to the individual div idun while tho the competition for existence exie tence is increased with the number of hens in the same flock division into families seems to be a ue necessary cestary condition of all animals and though con congregating re gating and herding berding for mutual f protection they pair and separate during duang the breeding seasons it is unnatural for poultry te to be kept in large numbers together especially during the times of laying and hatching tho the email small flock secures generally all the scraps from the kitchen and the table and aa as a rule these contain a larger share of the nitrogenous nit rogen elements meat etc than is generally fed to large number numbers which partially accounts for the greater production ot of eggs from the smaller hock flock with a large number the cost of labor is lessened proportionately and as but few really estimate the labor of caring for a small hock flock the keeping of strict accounts charging labor as an item would demonstrate that there is not such a wide difference in the proportionate profit as may be imagined yet ad ai the labor is of of but little value until the flocks are large it is safe to admit that small flocks are more profitable american agriculturist |