Show early poultry culling pays well in two ways the typical hen usually lays the greatest number bof eggs in the first or pullet year says prof L at hurd of the new york state college of agriculture ri high producing hens may be profitable kept as layers for two or three years and as breeders bleeders bre eders even longer but every flock no matter how well bred it is has some hens in it that to do not pay for their keep on the typical farm 40 per cent of the birds stop laying beewen june 15 and september 1 if the culls are re moved during this period rather than after october 1 about one and a half tons of feed will be sa saved vedon on a flock of 1000 birds or about ten cents on the average for each bird in the hock flock in addition early culling pays because more money Is received to the pound according to professor hurd burd the price of leghorn fowls Is usually higher during Ju lynnd august than it Is after the first of october the average top price for the eight years 1022 to 1029 1920 was june july nbc 91 august 2 uc september october ct ober |