SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
and March for the heavy or meat breeds. 
After the pullets are nearly grown, 
keep a good egg-producing food before 
them all of the time. Read carefully what 
I have said in Chapter III. about feeding 
laying hens. A little lean meat, in some 
form, in their rations every day, when 
insects are scarce, will help start them to 
laying. 
Don’t give them stimulants of any 
kind; remember that springtime is na- 
ture’s egg-producing time, and you should 
seek to give them what nature will give 
them when springtime comes, both in food 
and comfort. If this is done, there will 
be no trouble in getting the pullets to. 
laying in the fall and early winter if they 
have been properly raised. 
The chickens should never stop grow- 
ing from the time they are hatched until 
they are grown; and it should be remem- 
bered that to overfeed them while they 
are young will stop their growth quicker 
than to underfeed them, and then, too, the 
underfed chick will recover at once, when 
its rations are increased, while the over- 
fed chick will never recover in time to 
make a good fall and winter layer. In- 
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