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mand for them from October to March. 

 White Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks are 

 the best broilers. Seven hens of these breeds 

 are sufficient to run with a cockerel. More 

 only cause waste of eggs and time. Infer- 

 tile eggs or weak germs, which have to be 

 removed when you discover them on testing 

 the eggs on the seventh or fifteenth day, 

 will cause you to run the incubator for per- 

 haps only half its capacity. 



PIGEONS NEED ATTENTION NOW 



If you started pigeons for fancy stock or 

 squabs last spring, and kept the first lots of 

 young ones for stock, they should now be 

 mated and put into the house they are to 

 remain in. Young birds are occasionally 

 neglectful about building nests in time, so 

 look for dropped eggs; locate the careless 

 pair, and unless they select a box and build 

 for the second laying, take them out of the 

 house and turn them into pigeon pie. 



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