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sible, and put a band on one leg of each. These 
will be the hens to breed from. 
Don’t hold the cockerels any longer, unless wanted 
for your own table. 
NOVEMBER 
If the pullets are laying freely, you will know 
that your season’s work has been properly done. 
If they are not; well, what was the trouble? If 
you have kept a record of your work, that will help 
you to decide. 
More corn may be fed now. Indeed, it may well 
be fed exclusively for the evening ration. 
This is a fine month to sell eggs, but a poor one 
for dressed poultry. There should be no old fowls 
left to sell. 
Busy hens make a full egg basket. A handful 
of millet scattered in the litter occasionally will be an 
extra inducement for the hens to scratch. 
Be sure that the pullets have plenty of green 
food. Cabbages are not the best, for they do not 
add to the flavor of the egg. However, they will 
answer, but do not make the fowls jump for them. 
Mangels are better. Cut alfalfa may always be pur- 
chased of grain dealers. 
