. Poultry for the farm and home. If you own a carefully culled at-tractive uniform flock, your neigh-bors will notice it and want to buyhatching eggs and breeding stockfrom you. CULLING PULLETS Pullets for winter laying should be early hatched and well ma-tured before cold weather. They should have yellow shanks,yellow beak, bright eyes, and well-developed combs. Slow grow-ing pullets do not make good winter A well-bred carefully culled farm flock of White Leghorns ownedby Miss Ella Marqueis of Cedar Lake, Indiana. The eggs from thisflock are sold to a leading Chicago hotel for 5 cent
. Poultry for the farm and home. If you own a carefully culled at-tractive uniform flock, your neigh-bors will notice it and want to buyhatching eggs and breeding stockfrom you. CULLING PULLETS Pullets for winter laying should be early hatched and well ma-tured before cold weather. They should have yellow shanks,yellow beak, bright eyes, and well-developed combs. Slow grow-ing pullets do not make good winter A well-bred carefully culled farm flock of White Leghorns ownedby Miss Ella Marqueis of Cedar Lake, Indiana. The eggs from thisflock are sold to a leading Chicago hotel for 5 cents above the marketprice quoted for extras, the hotel furnishing the cases for shipping. DETERMINE ON ONE BREED AND STICK TO IT A mongrel flock cannot be as profitable as a pure-bred flock provided both flocks are given the same care and attention. Keep one breed only because: It is easier to tend. The products are uniform. The products bring a better price. You will be proud of i t and take better care of it. It is hard to take care of a mixed flock. The needs of eachvariety are different. Leghorns are active and hard to Rocks are sluggish and need to be induced to the two are kept together it is hard to get the best out of either. When you have one breed, the fowls are aUke in rate of growth,size, temperament, and habits. Stick to the breed you select. Get your breeding stockfrom
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