EGG PRODUCTION 
hen lays 100 eggs a year, and ninety-nine 
eggs represent the cost of production and 
one egg represents profit, then if the egg 
production of the hen could be increased 
to 101 without increasing the cost of the 
hen’s keep, the profit would have increased 
100 per cent., while the egg production 
would have increased only one per cent. 
Then, if pullets lay more and _higher- 
priced eggs, and a small increase in egg 
production means a larger increase in 
profit, all the argument so far stands in 
favor of the pullets. 
It is, however, probable that good, 
well-grown pullets, six months old, from 
a good laying strain, could not be found 
for sale at anything like a reasonable 
price; but they could be produced for 
about what they would sell for on the 
open market after they are eighteen 
months old, or at the end of their first 
laying year. 
The unprofitable molting season is also 
avoided, for if the pullets are hatched at 
the proper season they will not molt in 
the fall of that year, and the end of their 
first laying year will have been reached 
at or before the beginning of their first 
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