Show GOOD IDEA TO CUT OUT POORER HENS why keep non producers in the flock it Is economical management to go over the flock frequently for or the purpose of removing the liens hens which show signs of having ceased production the feed bonsu consumed ed might be put to ose more profitable use if fed to the young stock tn in order that the birds going on the market may he be well finished and the pullets properly developed and in the best of shape to produce heavily luring the he winter months when new laid eggs command a profitable price when culling each lien hen must he examined carefully the head furnishes valuable indications in picking the high layers the long crow headed individual or the bird with the lesh of the race face in wrinkles and the eyebrows overhanging Is seldom a good producer the high producer has a comb which is bright red with it a soft waxy wasy te tet ture as opposed to a dull tried dried and withered appearance the face Is clean cut rather than beefy the he eye Is bright and prominent rather than dull and small the nl blomen abdomen omen of the producer Is soft efland and pliable the keel is forced down away from the pelvic arch and the pelvic hones bones sometimes called the lay bones are thin and wide apart A shrunken abdomen with pelvic hones bones covered with fat indicates slow production or none at all A laying fowl uses up the surplus fat in the body an and in the case of the birds of the yellow skinned varieties tile the rate at which the fat Is used can be determined by the fading of the yellow pigment from the vent eye ere ring ear lobes beak and shi shanks links in the order named at this season these parts on the heavy producer are usually bleached white when a bird ceases production the yellow pigment returns rapidly in the same order as aa it left the best layers generally molt in october or november when they shed their feathers much more rapidly anil and grow them in more quickly tha than n the early |