AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
dorizer, and when sprinkled over the droppings 
boards prevents the droppings from sticking fast, 
and they may easily be swept off. 
Take good care of the early hatched pullets now 
and they will take good care of your egg yield this 
winter, when eggs are bringing high prices. Sell 
the cockerels, but hold on to the pullets and keep 
them for winter and spring laying. Don’t let a 
paltry fifty cents cause you to part with a well- 
developed, likely-looking pullet, for she will pro- 
duce a dollar’s worth of eggs for you this winter. 
Push the young roosters for broilers; more money 
in them that way than any other way. Don’t keep 
them too long; let them go when they weigh two 
pounds; a bunch of useless males will rapidly eat 
up the profits, and their development is usually less 
rapid after they are three or four months old. 
Dispose of all stock, both young and old, that 
have any defect or are not of the most desirable 
quality from either the utility or fancy standpoint. 
When cold weather sets in house room will be at a 
premium, and a small flock of high quality will 
pay greater profits than a crowded flock of mixed 
quality. 
Cold weather always means more work with the 
Cold poultry. The chill should be taken 
Weather off everything to be partaken of by 
Management the fowls. Chilling a fowl by allow- 
ing it to partake of cold food is just as harmful, and 
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