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Show HOW TO PICK THE MONEY-MAKING HENS Do you know which chickens in your flock are producing enough eggs to pay for their feed? Can you tell the hen that lays thirty eggs a year at a time when they sell at retail for 18 cents a dozen, from the hen that lays six times that number, num-ber, many of them in the season of high prices? Can you tell the steady layer from the "boarder" in your flock without first opening her and looking at the egg sack? These are some of the questions that puzzle poultry farmers the country coun-try over. The hen that produces three or four eggs a week, and is on the job nearly the year around is the hen that is always al-ways hustling, according to J. G. Hal-pin Hal-pin of the college of agriculture, University Uni-versity of Wisconsin. THE HEN THAT LAYS THE EGGS :? te "it Jf Is busy all day. . ts Is nervous yet unafraid. Jf SHas bright eyes and a scarlet comb. J ts. Is always singing and always X ' hungry. j V She is the first hen off the roost in the morning and the last on at night. She is always foraging; following the plow in the spring in search of grubs and cut-worms, roaming the woods and fields during the summer, devouring devour-ing many injurious insects and their larvae, and busily gleaning about the threshing machine or gorging herself I f n With Her Year's Work Laid Out Before Be-fore Her. on weed seeds in the fall. She is the hen that is unafraid, yet nervous; the hen with the bright eye and the scarlet scar-let comb. She is always singing as she works and is generally at work scratching away for dear life making her own living out of God's good green earth. She goes often to the water tank and drinks deeply for much of the eggs she produces is water. |