AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
realizes the importance of intelligent, systematic 
care and management during the summer and 
autumn months. 
The market man cannot expect to secure many 
eggs from his fowls next winter, when eggs are 
selling at something like an half-dollar a dozen, 
unless he has his pullets well developed before cold 
weather sets in and unless he gets his old hens 
through the molt early and keeps them in the best 
of shape all the time, both in and out of season. 
With the fancier it is of paramount importance 
that he look carefully after the welfare of his birds 
during the summer and fall months, else he cannot 
win any of the creamy prizes at the poultry shows 
this winter; for good size in the young birds means 
a great deal toward successful competition, while 
hot weather and lack of shade and protection, to 
say nothing of other neglects all along the line, 
especially during the molting period, will ruin the 
plumage and color of the best show bird ever bred. 
As soon as the breeding season is over the males 
and females should be separated, and kept sepa- 
rated until eggs are again wanted for hatching. 
Hens lay as well without males as with them, and 
infertile eggs keep longer than the other kind dur- 
ing hot weather. Aside from the undesirability 
of having the hens constantly nagged by a cock 
bird, both sexes deserve a rest after having been 
mated together during the breeding season, and if 
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