WHERE AND HOW TO REAR FOWLS. 147 



the secret of any success in dealing with the land, 

 whether the holding be large or small. 



Do Fowls Pay? 



By close observation, careful selection, and by 

 experienced management fowls can be made to 

 pay, but not otherwise. 



The first rule is to obtain a strain of poultry 

 suitable to your land, and suitable to supply the 

 wants of the market closest to you. 



If you wish to produce eggs alone, then you 

 must, in the first instance, obtain a laying strain 

 that do not want to sit. Then your hens must 

 lay eggs at a time when eggs are scarce and dear, 

 namely, in the winter and early spring. 



To obtain these early eggs your chickens must 

 be hatched out early in the year, so that they 

 will begin to lay during the winter and spring 

 months. This of course means a great deal of 

 care and trouble. But that care and trouble will 

 be repaid by the extra price that the eggs laid in 

 the cold months will fetch. 



Then, after you have obtained a good laying 

 strain, you must, in addition, and this is im- 

 portant, still further improve the laying powers 

 of your birds by only " sitting " the eggs of those 

 hens that lay the greatest quantity of eggs. 



By only sitting the eggs and rearing the 

 chickens of your best laying hens, and, season by 



