SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
alone, for my observation of nature and 
my own experience bear me out in the 
conclusions I have reached. 
A great many poultry-raisers do not 
succeed in getting their pullets to laying 
in the fall and winter, and in that case they 
would be almost certain to prove less profit- 
able than the one and two year old hens. 
But somebody must raise the pullets 
before the one, two and three year old 
hens can be had; whoever that somebody 
is, he should seek to hatch the chickens at 
the proper time and raise them in such 
a way as to produce fall and winter laying 
pullets; to do otherwise is not only a loss 
to the person who does it, but it is also a 
great economic loss to the State. 
Since profit increases in such a great 
ratio, after a point has been reached 
where profit begins, it behooves every 
poultryman to seek every means at his 
command to increase the egg production 
of his birds without at the same time in- 
creasing the cost of their keep. One of 
the best means at his command is breed- 
ing in the direction of egg production. 
Another is good care and attention and 
young laying pullets. 
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