98 POULTRY 
Culling should continue all summer, and 
those chicks should be removed which are 
slow to feather or which do not keep up with 
the average of the flock in growth and 
development. 
From the remaining pullets left at housing 
time, the good operator should house ap- 
proximately 90 to 95 per cent. The remain- 
ing 5 or 10 per cent, even in a good flock, 
should be sold as culls. 
Culling in January. If the average 
commercial poultryman, running a one-man 
plant, has one thousand or twelve hundred 
pullets which go into quarters by the middle 
of September, he should do some culling in 
January, because, if there are pullets which 
have not begun to lay by January, they should 
be culled out. 
As a general thing the price of live poultry 
is considerably higher in January than in 
June, July, or August. Assuming that the 
difference in price is five cents per pound, 
and the birds average five pounds apiece, 
there is a loss in value of twenty-five cents 
per bird in the case of any birds kept over 
until summer. If a pullet has not laid any 
