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the number of chicks produced, does not really show 

 the number which came out of the shells. 



We were extremely fortunate in handling the 

 youngsters in the Brooder House, and our mortality 

 was very low, and when the youngsters were placed 

 in the Colony Houses, which had been built during the 

 early Spring months, and placed out on the Range in 

 readiness for them, they were a sturdy, vigorous 

 crowd. 



Percentage of Cockerels Low 



The number of cockerels was very low, and these, 

 as rapidly as they developed, were taken away from 

 the pullets and placed in a fattening pen which had 

 been provided, and as our stock was still an " un- 

 known quantity " in Poultrydom, we marketed the 

 larger part of them at broiler size. 



The pullets came on finely, and the records show 

 that a large number of them came into eggs when 

 they were a few days over four months of age. 



Through the connivance of an employe we made 

 a heavy loss in the way of theft, and, when the final 

 round-up of the pullets came, we found we had one 

 thousand nine hundred and fifty-three. 



During the Summer, we had built the No. 2 Laying 

 House, sixteen feet wide by one hundred and sixty 

 feet long, and in this house the first fifteen hundred 

 pullets were installed, the balance going into No. i 

 Laying House. 



