Chicken 
Dinners 
head. By working against the feathers, you will cause the powder to cling 
to them. 
When explaining why you will be able to accomodate your whole 
flock during all seasons, we referred to the way in which you will partition 
off 4 or 5 feet at the end of the poultry house and use it to brood one 
year’s baby chicks while the preceding year’s birds are providing your 
daily breakfasts and occasional sponge cakes. 
A point not heretofore touched upon, however, is this: 
The birds hatched in February of the first year will begin to lay early 
in the summer; the April or May hatched birds will come into laying in 
the fall, while a small percentage of the older pullets are molting. 
Naturally there will be a time—during February, March, April, May, 
and June of the second year—when all the 24 pullets will be laying. At 
this time the egg yield from 24 pullets should be from 18 to 20 eggs a day. 
Now, unless yourself and family can eat from 18 to 20 eggs a day, I 
would suggest that you treat yourself to 6 or 8 chicken dinners—making 
the less likely looking pullets provide the treat. This, because in July 
and August the early second-year pullets will come into laying and work 
hard. 
And remember: No matter what rules I might lay down for the 
feeding and care of your chickens, you might profitably depart from them 
at times according to your own best judgment. It is not unthinkable 
that you might work out some excellent idea that never occurred to me. 
Should you get into any trouble with your flock, write to me freely. 
None of us can teach the other fellow without teaching ourselves—and 
I pity the man that is not eager to learn. 
IS 
