EGG PRODUCTION 
rate them; the very fact that they lay lots 
of eggs in the late fall and winter is proof 
that their environment and food have been 
invigorating and strengthening. 
Third: Because nature never hesitates 
to breed from one-year-old birds, and she 
always gets good results; and then, too, 
birds bred from one-year-old pullets that 
have been stimulated, in nature’s way, to 
early egg production, will transmit those 
qualities to their offspring, and the longer 
they are bred along those lines the greater: 
will be the early egg-laying qualities of 
the flock. 
The stimulant that man provides for 
his birds, to induce them to lay in fall and 
winter, must not be a medicine which 
would have a depressing reaction, but 
nature’s stimulant, which is springtime 
environment and springtime food. 
It is true that nature gives a rest 
period to her fowls from egg production, 
but that period is accompanied by bad 
weather and a shortage of food that is 
harder on the birds than egg production 
under favorable conditions. 
I am not seeking to decide this ques- 
tion for myself or the reader by argument 
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