June, 1915 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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June Poultry Work 
T housands of dollars would be 
saved by the poultry keepers of 
this country if they would get rid of their 
superfluous male birds. In some States 
what has been termed a “swat the rooster” 
campaign has been inaugurated. The prin¬ 
cipal object is to induce the farmers who 
handle eggs commercially to get rid of 
their cock birds, for the reason that non- 
fertile eggs keep better than those which 
are fertile. There is another side to this 
matter, because the very fact that fertile 
eggs go bad more quickly than infertile 
eggs is really a protection to the customer 
to a certain extent. Some physicians insist 
upon having fertile eggs on the ground 
that if they are stale that fact is bound 
to become evident. It is certainly to the 
advantage of the poultry keeper to get 
rid of his roosters as soon as the breeding 
season is over — and there should be none 
around later than June — unless, of course, 
they are good enough to carry over to the 
next season. It is a common practice to 
use two-year cocks with pullets at breeding 
time, but the judgment of the best poultry 
keepers seems to be that it is preferable to 
mate cockerels with two-year-old hens. 
Hens that have stopped laying and 
those which are persistent in getting 
broody should be sold now, too. It is 
poor policy to carry over any pullets which 
have proven to be confirmed layers, for 
if they are used to breed from they are 
likely to transmit this broody tendency to 
their offspring. It is desirable to have set¬ 
ting hens sometimes, but in these days of 
incubators and brooders they are less 
popular than in the old days, and poultry- 
men would like to breed out the broody 
traits entirely. Any amateur can make a 
start in this direction by selecting for 
breeders those hens which are the least 
stubborn in their desire to set. 
If early chickens have been raised for 
roasters, June and July are the months 
to sell those not needed for home con¬ 
sumption, prices being at the highest point. 
Many men and women with small flocks 
of hens belonging to the American breeds 
add considerable money to their regular 
incomes by growing roaster chickens, 
hatching them in January or the first week 
In February. 
June is not too late to hatch chickens 
for winter laying, although they probably 
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