EGG PRODUCTION 
is making a specialty of egg production. 
But with the farmer and his wife who 
make the poultry business a side line, and 
with whom the experience necessary to 
raise pullets and get them to laying in the 
fall and keep them laying all winter is not 
available, perhaps the older hens would 
be the most profitable. 
It seems to me that the farmer’s flock 
of poultry is a very profitable side line, 
even though he can not get his pullets to 
lay much in the fall and winter, because 
they pick up a large amount of food that 
would otherwise go to waste, and destroy 
very many insects that would otherwise 
damage his crops. I can not see, however, 
how the poultryman who makes egg pro- 
duction a specialty, and has all of his 
feed to buy, can make the business profit- 
able unless he can get his pullets to laying 
in the fall and keep them laying all win- 
ter. And if he can do this I can not see 
why it would not be more profitable to 
sell the pullets at the end of their first 
‘laying year, when another flock of pullets 
are ready to take their place, than it 
would to keep them one and two years 
longer. There is another factor that must 
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