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Care for your plant during the summer as I laid down 

 for summer care and feeding. 



Just a word here in mating your male birds, for where 

 you follow up my system I advise four cocks or cock- 

 erels for every sixty layers. These birds should be so 

 mated that there is no fighting among them, and no 

 ''boss,'' as a rule. 



After your breeding season is over, say July, you 

 should remove nearly all your male birds and make one 

 flock of them, except a few flocks, which it would be well 

 to keep mated the season through, so you can always 

 fill a stray order for hatching eggs. 



Your cockerels should also be separated from the pul- 

 lets and placed in one large flock, or several flocks of one 

 hundred or less in a flock. In this way these male birds 

 run together very peaceably and rarely ever fight, and 

 you rarely see a "boss" among them. 



To mate them up, just take out of a bunch as many 

 as you want for a flock of females, all at once, and let 

 them go. You will then have no fighting, and very sel- 

 dom even a "boss." This is the only way to mate up 

 your birds for the best possible results. 



Never keep a brassy male bird. Have nothing but 

 pure white birds on your place, and you will find your 

 profits can be greatly increased by gradually breeding 

 into fancy birds. 



Show a few at your fall fairs or local shows. Get a 

 Standard and study them up. By careful selection you 

 can soon have a plant of very fine birds. 



Do not try to show at the big shows, such as Madison 

 Square Garden, or Boston, for it takes years of study or 

 a large sum of money to win at such shows as these. 



Just a word about your houses and I am through. If 

 the houses I have given you the plans of in this book are 

 not warm enough for your location, you can build them 

 six feet at the eaves instead of four by using a twelve- 



