fast. If they begin laying earlier than six months old, switch 

 them from one pen to another and avoid feeding a high pro- 

 tein food until they are ready to lay. Then they will begin 

 to lay during October and November, in time to catch the 

 best prices paid for eggs, although some poultry people pre- 

 fer to let them lay as soon as they will. 



While a good layer will not get overly fat, yet if constantly 

 fed fat foods, there is that possibility. It is better not to go 

 to the extreme in under or over feeding. A happy medium 

 is the thing and when you have reached this you may feel 

 that you have come to the economic as well as the satisfac- 

 tory feeding basis. There is one thing certain and true with 

 poultry keeping and that is that if people are to attain suc- 

 cess they must give their poultry proper care and attention. 

 There is always quick response to proper feeding and good 

 care and vice versa to poor feeding and care. You may have 

 a fine flock of young stock, doing fine and growing rapidly, 

 and if you let up on the good care you have been giving them, 

 you will soon find out that they will very shortly begin look- 

 ing very poorly. It is within the power of every poultry 

 keeper to have his birds in A-1 condition at all times. 



It is well to be remembered that there are certain things 

 necssary for the making of eggs. It is up to us to furnish 

 this raw material and the trusting hen will do the rest. How- 

 ever, she cannot furnish the supply of egg making material 

 when shut up in a poultry house. For the formation of the 

 shell she will need lime. This can be supplied by having 

 oyster shell forever before her. For the white or albumen, 

 she will need the protein found in oats, wheat, barley, and 

 alfalfa. For the yolk, she will want some fat such as com, 

 buckwheat, etc. These things having been furnished, the 

 hen will turn out the egg as well as though she were out 

 where she could pick them up herself. 



The fertile egg problem is one that confronts the breeder. 

 Strict attention should be paid to the males in each pen to 

 see that they are active and are in a good state of health. 

 If you are not feeding some green food, you are making a 

 great mistake as this helps to produce fertile eggs. Espec- 

 ially should lots of sprouted oats be fed as this is the most 

 excellent green food and productive of fertile eggs. Do not 

 allow the sprouts to grow too long but feed when it is about 

 an inch or so high, then you will get all the good in the root, 

 the oat, and the green shoot. To build up a good strain of 

 poultry, you must begin by breeding from healthy fowls. A 



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