for flavour of eggs, have all received attention, and up to a certain 

 point solved. 



Among the most important conclusions arrived at as the result 

 of long and practical experience are the following: 



That variety in rations is absolutely necessary to successful 

 winter egg production, health of the birds, and immunity from 

 the vices of egg-eating and feather-picking; 



That germs of eggs in springtime, under ordinary conditions 

 of poultry keeping, do not become strong until the fowls have 

 run outside and recovered from their long term of artificial winter 

 life and treatment; ^ 



Cotton front colony house. 

 Two curtains rolled up on mild winter day. 



That white diarrhoea etc., is in the great majority of instances 

 in early spring due to the lack of constitutional vitality on the part 

 of the breeding stock. One of the principal causes is given in the 

 preceeding paragraph; 



That germs do not under ordinary conditions become strong 

 enough to hatch out a satisfactory percentage of chickens until 

 the 1 2th or I5th of April; 



