EGG PRODUCTION 
deed, it is very doubtful if a chick that 
has been overfed can be made to lay in 
early fall and winter. 
So that, after all has been said that 
can be said as to how best to get pullets 
to laying in the fall and early winter, 
and keep them laying throughout the 
winter, the question resolves itself into 
this simple proposition: They must be 
hatched at the proper time, and properly 
fed and cared for until they are grown, 
and be given a clean, comfortable place 
in which to live and sleep during the cold 
weather, and furnished with nice, clean, 
attractive nests in which to lay their eggs. 
This is a subject on 
which poultrymen differ 
greatly. Some will have 
nothing but pullets, while 
others keep their hens until they are two 
and three years old. The easiest way to 
get at this question would be to go, in 
your imagination, on the market and buy 
an equal number, each, of six-months-old 
pullets, eighteen-months-old hens and 
thirty-months-old hens. If the cost of all 
three lots was the same, and after keeping 
them one year we found that all three 
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Age of Fowls for 
Most Profitable 
Egg Production 
