SELECTION OF STOCK v4 
poultryman may derive from the purchase 
of high-producing stock is this—that if he, 
himself, is able to reproduce that stock and 
get hens that will lay large numbers of eggs, 
he is in a position to sell eggs for hatching 
and stock for breeding to other men going 
into the chicken business or to his neighbors 
who have been less fortunate in the selection 
of their stock. 
3. Size. One might expect that size 
would more or less correspond to vigor, but 
this is not necessarily true. A man may 
have so bred and so fed his stock that while 
it possesses vigor and vitality, the birds 
will average too small. We should avoid the 
selection of any foundation stock which is 
undersize when it reaches maturity, accord- 
ing to the best standards of the breed or 
variety chosen. A practical poultryman 
finds that there is comparatively little differ- 
ence in the actual cost of feeding a pullet 
which weighs four and three-quarter pounds 
at maturity as compared with another pullet 
which weighs five or five and one-quarter 
pounds at maturity. But there is a big differ- 
ence in the yearly income from several hun- 
