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sible, and put a band on one leg of each. These 

 will be the hens to breed from. 



Don't hold the cockerels any longer, unless wanted 

 for your own table. 



NOVEMBER 



If the pullets are laying freely, you will know 

 that your season's work has been properly done. 

 If they are not; well, what was the trouble? If 

 you have kept a record of your work, that will help 

 you to decide. 



More corn may be fed now. Indeed, it may well 

 be fed exclusively for the evening ration. 



This is a fine month to sell eggs, but a poor one 

 for dressed poultry. There should be no old fowli 

 left to sell. 



Busy hens make a full egg basket. A handful 

 of millet scattered in the litter occasionally will be an 

 extra inducement for the hens to scratch. 



Be sure that the pullets have plenty of green 

 food. Cabbages are not the best, for they do not 

 add to the flavor of the egg. However, they will 

 answer, but do not make the fowls jump for them. 

 Mangels are better. Cut alfalfa may always be pur- 

 chased of grain dealers. 



