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Show KEEP TAB ON AGE OF FOWLS Enables Poultryman to Cull Out Hen That are Unprofitable One ' Method Favored. It is mere guess work to tell th age of a hen after she has passed W'f pullet stage. To the good poultryman It is important that the exact age ot every fowl on his premises be known. Hens that are past the age for profit should be culled out and their places taken by the younger stock. Legbands with numbers may be used when the pullets arrive at maturity, and, if records rec-ords are kept, the identity ot each fowl is easily established. A less elaborate elab-orate method, and one which no poul-trykeeper poul-trykeeper can afford not to follow, is to punch a hole iu one of the four " webs of the feet, each web represent- ' ing a certain ygar. Special punches for this purpose may be purchased from any poultry supply house, but a small sized leather belt punch can be used to good advantage. The hole is punched very easily when the newly hatched chick is first taken from the nest or incubator. All of one season's chicks may be marked on the same, web, although if special hatchings are to be kept separately as high as fifteen combinations can be used. If ', properly done the hole or traces of the scar will always remain and tbe 'y -Identity ot the fowl cannot be lost. 1 |