104 POULTRY 
of poor layers. It has been proved that those 
hens which are frequently broody are poor 
producers. If, after a month or six weeks, it 
is found that certain hens have three or four 
leg bands showing that they have been 
broody three or four times in that period, or 
even if a bird has been broody as frequently 
as four or five times in eight or ten weeks, it 
proves that she is a poor layer and she 
should be culled and sold. 
If a man picks up his broody hens every 
night, places them in a broody coop, and 
once each week goes over these broody hens, 
handles them over and throws out those 
birds which show from previous indications 
that they have been poor layers, he will 
gradually eliminate all the poor producers 
from his flock. 
Breeding from Flock Culled in This 
Way. If such a culling campaign has been 
carried on thoroughly, at the end of the first 
laying year the birds that remain, possibly 
two hundred out of the original thousand, 
will naturally be the best two hundred hens. 
If the poultryman desires to use hens in their 
second laying year as breeding stock these 
