Show each year people are buying chicks earlier practically every hatchery man in the middle west that has been tit in business for several years reports that each year sear people are buying chick 3 earlier an occasional year when the late winter and early spring are below normal in temperatures and snow Is heavier than usual this trend towards earlier buying is interrupted but in general the trend is there this Is as tt it should be if we are going to make poultry profitable with the lie prices that appear to be facing us n during the next few years pullets must be kept laying throughout the winter under iowa conditions with the american breeds beli being ng largely used winter eggs from well developed birds mean early chicks february and even late january W will be increasingly important in the hatchery business and april and may alay decreasingly so within a very few years tears |