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fant things receive every care because they 

 appeal to the sentimental feeling possessed 

 by all humanity for babies. They grow, 

 get long legged, ugly, uninteresting, and are 

 neglected disastrously. Don't let this hap- 

 pen, for it jeopardizes success and diminishes 

 profit. 



It is not necessary to say that chickens 

 for market should be plump; but it will 

 be helpful to state their ten-weeks-old weight 

 should be in the close neighborhood of a 

 pound and a half. To acquire this, they 

 must be kept growing in frame and flesh, so 

 that they double in weight every ten days 

 up to the fortieth day. After that, their 

 increase is neither so fast nor sure, but they 

 must be kept going. If they fall back now, 

 it will not only postpone summer sales, but 

 delay egg production next fall. 



Carefully cull the chicks, keep the best to 

 augment egg production next fall; let the 

 others go to market. 



Chickens over eight weeks old intended 

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