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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1912 



DON'T KILL THE LAYING HEN 



The laying hen is the paying hen. It is the non-layers you want to cull — the "drones." They 

 are the ones that "eat their heads off" many times every year. Most flocks could be cut down one- 

 half and not affect the number of eggs gathered in a year. You can save from 10% to 50% of your feed. 

 But you must know how to select the layers, how to tell those hens that lay enough eggs to make them 

 profitable from those that fail to pay their board. 



Every poultryman is trying to get rid of the non-layers. He knows the 

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 out his money-losers, and, to his surprise, when he kills a hen he thought to 

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The whole secret, which is just real knowledge of the egg organisms, is clearly explained 

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