PROFITABLE EGG FARMING. 
Mr. Wood's 210 Eggs Per Hen. 
We have had a number of inquiries in regard 
to the details of that egg yield of two hundred 
and ten eggs per hen within one year, which Mr. 
F. E. Woods got last year—and we drove up 
there the other day to see his stock, and asked 
permission to look over his egg record. From 
twenty-six White Wyandotte eggs which Mr. 
Woods bought there were eleven pullets raised, 
and it was those eleven pullets which made this 
excellent record. The chickens were hatched 
the 23d of April, and the first egg was laid Sept. 
22nd,—one day before the pullets were five 
months old. During the remaining days of 
September they laid eight eggs. 
In the twelve 
months beginning October 1st, 
their egg yield 
was as follows: 
October. 
.105 
November. 
.207 
December . 
.253 
January. 
.181 
February . 
.197 
March. 
.253 
April. 
.215 
May. 
.145 
June. 
.199 
July . 
.206 
August. 
.189 
September. 
.167 
making a total of two thousand three hundred 
and seventeen, which is two hundred and ten 
and seven-elevenths eggs for each of the eleven 
birds. 
The daily record is exceedingly interesting to 
look over. There are quite a number of tens 
in it; eights and nines are very numerous 
through November, December, February, March 
and April, and on Christmas day, they laid 
eleven eggs, scoring one apiece, on account of 
the day, no doubt. There is one day’s record 
of twelve eggs, but Mr. Woods says that he is 
practically certain that one or two of these eggs 
were laid before that day, as eight eggs were 
found in the regular nests, and four more in one 
corner, where one or two of them had probably 
been overlooked, so he does not claim that 
any one of his birds laid two eggs in one day. 
Three or four of the pullets were allowed to sit 
the last of April or first of May, which would 
account for the smaller number of eggs in May 
and Mr. Woods is confident the small egg yield 
in January is due to his having fed whole corn 
once a day for a couple of weeks or so. 
Farm Poultry. 
Eggs in Fall and Winter. 
By Edgar Warren. 
Some weeks ago I visited a man who is one of 
the most successful egg farmers that I know 
anything about. He is employed ten hours or 
more each day in a store, and yet he manages to 
clear up several hundred dollars a year from 
his hens. He does not get fancy prices for eggs 
or stock, but ships to Boston and gets the prices 
current there. 
This man is very systematic and methodical 
and can tell just how many eggs he gets in any 
given year and, to a fraction of a cent, what it 
costs to produce them. His financial year runs 
from November 1 to November 1. Last year 
(1902) he kept four hundred and seventy-five 
hens, and they laid 70,399 eggs, which he sold 
for SI,429. The year before (1901) he kept 
four hundred and seventy-five hens and they 
laid 69,506 eggs, which he sold for $1,104. 
You will observe that he got but 893 more 
eggs last year than he did the year before, and 
yet his eggs brought him $325 more. How do 
I account for that? It is very simple. His hens 
laid more eggs in the fall and early winter last 
year than they did the year before. 
Late Fall and Early Winter Profits. 
I mention this case because it is so suggestive. 
Unless a man can get high prices for eggs for 
setting in the spring, the time for him to make 
his profits is in early winter and late fall. A 
dozen of eggs at Thanksgiving are worth two 
dozen St. Patrick’s Day or the Fourth of July. 
There never has been a year within my recol¬ 
lection when eggs have not been high in fall and 
early winter, and I do not believe there will be 
till the end of time. And yet there is no diffi¬ 
culty in getting eggs at this season if one goes 
about it in the right way. 
The “ First Rule." 
Eggs in fall and early winter must come prin¬ 
cipally from pullets. A hen that has laid faith¬ 
fully for nine or ten months is now in the midst 
of her molt or just recovering from it. Conse¬ 
quently we must not expect her to do much in 
the way of producing eggs. If she is of the 
American breed she will lay now and then, 
enough to pay for her keep, but nothing great. 
So, as I have said, we must depend upon pullets. 
But a pullet must be thoroughly mature before 
she settles down to lay an egg a day. 
The first rule for fall and winter egg produc¬ 
tion, therefore*, is this: Get out your pullets 
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