MISCELLANEOUS 
you can keep them, the more eggs you will 
get and the greater will be your profits. 
Eggs for hatching 
should be selected from 
your best breeding stock; 
and if you desire to increase the egg pro- 
duction of your flock, the eggs should be 
from the best layers of your flock. Eggs 
that are well shaped and uniform in size 
and color should be selected, and they 
should have good, strong, thick shells. 
No egg with a weak, thin shell should 
ever be used for hatching, either under a 
hen or in the incubator. 
Of course, if you had paid a high price 
for a sitting of eggs and found among 
them some thin-shelled ones, it would be 
all right to try to hatch them, but it would 
be best to separate the weak-shelled ones 
from the strong, and put the weak-shelled 
ones under one hen and the strong-shelled 
ones under another. For the weak-shelled 
ones it would be best to select the most 
quiet, gentle hen available, and be sure 
and sit her where she can not be disturbed 
by other hens, or anything else, for if she 
is disturbed the thin-shelled eggs will 
surely be broken. But, in general, where 
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