SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
keep these families separate, for, by using 
numbered bands on their legs and keeping 
a record, you will always know just what 
birds you want to breed from. By the use 
of the trap-nest you can always get eggs 
for hatching from the hens that you want 
to breed from. The trap-nest will also 
enable you to find out which of your hens 
produce the most eggs in a year, or in 
any other given length of time, and enable 
you to always breed from the best layers. 
There is another thing to be considered 
in connection with the back-yard flock: 
By establishing these little flocks of poul- 
try you can help to win the great world 
war by providing a way by which the 
waste food products of the home can be 
converted into wholesome and nourishing 
food; and then if there was no war, to 
practice such an economy would be doing 
a great good to the nation, for this great 
war that we are now fighting with the 
sword will be followed with a much 
greater war: the war of commerce and 
industry. This latter war will be fought 
with the weapons of thrift, economy, effi- 
ciency and invention, and to the people 
winning the great conflict will come, per- 
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