244 MY POULTRY DAY BY DAY 
need have no fear of taking on contracts. He can tell to a few 
dozens how many eggs he can produce at any season of the year. 
Most people are precluded from entering on valuable contracts by 
the fear that they may not have a sufficient supply of eggs during 
the winter months. If one breeds at the appointed times, such fears 
are groundless. The failure to provide eggs, and plenty of them, 
during the last three months of the year isa confession that one 
does not know one’s business, or that, knowing it, one has neglected 
it. Nature, in this instance, has not been neglectful or niggardly. 
She has created the pullet to take to laying exactly where the 
older hen has left off. If we fail to take advantage of her 
largess all the blame is ours. There is no possible obstacle in the 
way of eggs all the year round excepting our own negligence and 
forgetfulness. 
I look to the near future for the abolition of famine time for 
eggs. Like most of our difficulties, scarcity of eggs in winter is a 
self-created difficulty. It has no place in Nature. 
