Some cocks retain a fair amount of vigor and 

 procreative power after the second year, but nine 

 out of ten do not. 



If you want eggs to hatch well and to get the 

 maximum profit from your poultry business, kill 

 all the males and females at two years of age. 

 Don't keep a fowl simply because it is fine look- 

 ing. You cannot afford to keep simply orna- 

 mental birds in your flocks. 



Fowls in too close confinement lose their vigor, 

 and that, together with the practice of keeping 

 fowls that are too old, is what causes nine- 

 tenths of the "dead in the shell" cases which 

 owe their origin to the breeding stock. Some 

 people think a yard ten by twelve feet is large 

 enough for the accommodation of a dozen fowls. 

 They must have a reasonable amount of exercise. 



As there are two classes of poultry raisers, there 

 are two ways to effect a remedy. 



The man who must raise his poultry on a limited 

 area of ground, should keep fewer fowls. Is it not 

 better to keep one hundred fowls from which you 

 can produce eggs that will hatch from seventy-five 

 to ninety-five per cent, of the fertile ones (seventy- 

 five per cent, of all being fertile), than to house, 

 feed and care for two hundred fowls to produce 

 eggs of which fifty per cent, are unfertile, and only 

 from thirty to forty-five per cent, of the fertile eggs 

 hatch? Wriggle around it as you please, you 

 cannot disregard this advice and succeed. 



Those who have large tracts of land, but, because 

 of keeping several breeds or varieties of fowls, are 

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