ACCESSORIES AND APPLIANCES 
will not need to make them. All kinds of 
poultry accessories and appliances, in- 
eluding poultry houses, can be bought 
ready-made, and I believe it is better, for 
the most part at least, for poultrymen to 
buy them ready-made. 
Your coming flock of hens can be im- 
proved in laying qualities by sitting your 
incubators at times when ‘only the best 
layers of the flock are laying. Perhaps 
the best months for this purpose are Feb- 
ruary and March in the Southern States 
and March and April in the Northern 
States. Another good way to improve the 
laying qualities of your flock is to study 
them closely, and you will soon learn to 
pick out the poorer layers. Early molting 
is a good sign of a poor layer. Get rid of 
the poor layers as soon as they are dis- 
covered. 
If an individual egg record of every 
bird of the flock is desired, I know of no 
way that it can be had except by trap- 
nesting the flock; and if a pedigreed flock 
of birds is desired, it can not be had in 
any other way. 
Where you have a large flock the best 
way is to select a few of the most desir- 
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