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We were well satisfied with the result of the Win- 

 ter's work with these pullets, and, although we did 

 not have the knowledge that has since come to us in 

 feeding for eggs, the output was a most creditable 

 one, and we found a ready market at a good price. 



Early in the Fall we had mapped out our plans for 

 a very decided increase in plant for the coming season. 

 The excavation for the Incubator Cellar, sixteen by 

 fifty feet, had been made, and the Brooder House 

 above it was enclosed without difficulty before 

 weather of any great severity overtook us. We were 

 blessed with a very late Fall, and mild weather con- 

 tinued, with only occasional dips, well into December, 

 1907. 



We installed in the Cellar ten incubators, with a 

 capacity of three hundred and ninety eggs each. 

 The Brooder House, with its arrangement for Hovers 

 and Nursery pens, was all completed, and the month 

 of March found us placing eggs in the machines. 



In the Fall of 1907 we had enlarged our Breeding 

 House, so that we were able to place in it some two 

 hundred and fifty breeders. Out of our original pen 

 of thirty, we had lost two. From different sources 

 we bought yearling hens, and with our original 

 twenty-eight, made up' the breeding pen. 



Of course, as we had planned to endeavor to pro- 

 duce some three thousand pullets for the Fall of 

 1908, we were obliged to very materially supplement 



