SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
molt. Then they can be sold to give room 
for the new flock of pullets that have been 
raised to take their place. 
These young hens could be sold in 
almost any neighborhood for considerably 
more than a produce market price, for 
very many farmers and farmers’ wives, 
who have all the work they can attend to 
without raising chickens, would be glad to 
get them to renew their flocks. 
Very many farmers and their wives, 
who find a small flock of poultry profitable 
and who have not the experience nor the 
time necessary to make the raising of 
pullets for winter egg production profit- 
able, could be depended upon to take all 
the eighteen-months-old hens that the 
poultryman would have to sell, at a good 
price. And after the poultryman had 
established a reputation for having extra 
good layers of that age for sale each year, 
he would not have to hunt the buyer, but 
the buyer would hunt him. 
But if there is nothing but a produce 
market, where the eighteen-months-old 
hens will only bring their meat value, it 
seems to me that all the argument is in 
favor of the pullets where the poultryman 
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