Il 
EGG PRODUCTION 
The Laying Hens—Bad Habits—Making the Pullets 
Lay in Late Fall and Winter—Age of Fowls for Most 
Profitable Egg Production. 
I am going to tell you 
how we (my wife, daugh- 
ter and I) manage our home flock of lay- 
ing hens. I shall not claim that our 
method of feeding and caring for our 
flock is the best; all that I shall claim for 
it is that it proves profitable with us. 
There are so many kinds of food, some 
of which are abundant in one locality and 
some in another, and some of which are 
cheap in one locality and dear in another, 
that any given combination that proves 
profitable in one locality may not prove 
so in another. But I don’t think there is 
any locality in this country where a good, 
economical and profitable ration can not 
be made up, for the most part, out of 
home-grown products of the locality. This 
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The Laying Hens 
