AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



realizes the importance of intelligent, systematic 

 care and management during the summer and 

 autumn months. 



The market man cannot expect to secure many 

 eggs from his fowls next winter, when eggs are 

 selling at something like an half-dollar a dozen, 

 unless he has his pullets well developed before cold 

 weather sets in and unless he gets his old hens 

 through the molt early and keeps them in the best 

 of shape all the time, both in and out of season. 

 With the fancier it is of paramount importance 

 that he look carefully after the welfare of his birds 

 during the summer and fall months, else he cannot 

 win any of the creamy prizes at the poultry shows 

 this winter ; for good size in the young birds means 

 a great deal toward successful competition, while 

 hot weather and lack of shade and protection, to 

 say nothing of other neglects all along the line, 

 especially during the molting period, will ruin the 

 plumage and color of the best show bird ever bred. 



As soon as the breeding season is over the males 

 and females should be separated, and kept sepa- 

 rated until eggs are again wanted for hatching. 

 Hens lay as well without males as with them, and 

 infertile eggs keep longer than the other kind dur- 

 ing hot weather. Aside from the undesirability 

 of having the hens constantly nagged by a cock 

 bird, both sexes deserve a rest after having been 

 mated together during the breeding season, and if 



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