8 COMMERCIAL EGG FARMING 



1. I breed from constitutionally vigorous 

 hens only, preferably coming-two-year-old 

 White Leghorns, that have shown a produc- 

 tion of at least 144 eggs each during their 

 first laying year. 



2. I mate these hens to cocterels bred 

 from trap-nested stock, whose mothers have 

 in their pullet year laid not less than 200 eggs 

 each. No cockerel is used which is not of 

 good type and vigorous. 



3. The chicks from these matings are 

 brought up on dry feed entirely. No wet 

 mash of any kind is fed to them at any period 

 of their lives. They are never coddled and 

 any chick which shows the slightest signs of 

 weakness is promptly killed. 



4. 'No attempt is ever made to doctor sick 

 birds, young or old. Any bird not looking 

 well is always killed. 



5. The pullets are run in flocks of 400 

 birds each without cockerels, as infertile eggs 

 only are sold for eating purposes. They sat- 

 isfy my customers better than fertile eggs. 



6. My breeding pens consist of 400 two- 

 year-old hens mated with twenty cockerels, 

 all running together as one flock. 



