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and trouble these 200 eggs are laid mostly during 

 the cold months, when eggs are fetching 2d. and 

 2Jd. each, then you can at once understand how 

 egg production can be made to pay. 



It is said that, to obtain the best egg-laying 

 results, no hen ought to be kept longer than two 

 years. After she is two years old she falls off in 

 the number she lays, although the eggs she does 

 lay are- probably larger and better flavoured. 



The cock should be changed every two years, 

 and obtained from a strain at a distance which is 

 not closely related to your hens, and you should 

 try to get him from a breeder following out the 

 same rules of careful selection as yourself. 



Here is another important point to be con- 

 sidered. Supposing you possess a well-bred 

 strain of hens, and by your own selection each 

 hen has reached a power of laying a much greater 

 quantity of eggs than the usual hen lays, then 

 your strain becomes noted and valuable and can 

 be sold at fancy prices. 



It is far more profitable to keep a few hens, on 

 sound business and scientific principles, than to 

 keep a much greater number when these 

 principles are neglected. 



Also be careful to collect your eggs every 

 morning, so that they are clean and free from 

 spot and stain. 



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