REARING HEAVY LAYERS. 



Methods of Selecting the Eggs and Hatching and Rearing 



the Record Layers — Feeding for Eggs — 



Improving the Flock. 



By L. B. Rich. 



Have your chickens laid well during the winter? If 

 not, now is the time to figure on raising stock that will lay 

 next winter. It takes no more time nor does it cost any 

 more money to raise winter layers than it does those that 

 lay only in spring and summer. 



Select some standard breed, one that you like, and then 

 stick to it. You will find the varieties of the American 

 class, Wyandottes, Rocks, or Rhode Island Reds, to be 

 good inoney makers. 



Like begets like — so don't expect a hen that lays only 

 in the spring and summer to breed daughters that will 

 be winter layers, for she won't do it. Make certain of one 

 thing first, that the eggs you incubate in spring came 

 from hens that as pullets laid in the winter and you will 

 .have made a good beginning towards obtaining winter 

 eggs. 



Hatch in ApriL 



Hatch your chicks during April and up to May 15th. 

 You will find an incubator is the best investment you can 

 make to accomplish this. When the chicks are hatched, 

 don't crowd them into a small stuffy brooder to suffocate 

 for want of fresh air; build a colony house 6 x 10 feet in 

 size, 5 feet high in the back and 7 feet in front; put an indoor 

 brooder in it and you have an outfit that will pay for itself 

 with every hatch. - - 



Feeding the Chicks. 



Cover the floor of the house with chaff from under the 

 hay loft. Scatter dry, chick food— wheat, cra,cked ,cprn> 



