SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
be considered in this connection, and that 
is the breeding every spring from pullets 
that have been stimulated to their great- 
est capacity the previous winter for egg 
production. Most poultrymen believe that 
one and two year old hens are the best to 
breed from. If that be true, it would be 
necessary to keep birds into their second 
and third year for that purpose, unless 
eges for hatching of baby chicks could be 
bought from a desirable flock of that age. 
I don’t believe it is true that two and 
three year old hens that have not been 
stimulated for egg production are better 
to breed laying pullets from than one- 
year-old pullets that have been stimulated 
for egg production. 
First: Because to stimulate for egg 
production during the first fall and winter 
of the pullet’s life means to approximate 
as near as possible during that time the 
conditions that exist in the springtime, 
which is nature’s season for egg produc- 
tion. 
Second: Because such stimulation, in- 
stead of tending to sap the vitality and 
weaken the birds, as most poultrymen 
believe, tends to strengthen and invigo- 
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