The Farm-poultry . anegg! Tis nothing to the fussing and crowing the own-ers of hens do when the hens are laying well. And theworrying when they dont lay well—hut of that Ill havesomething particular further on in my story. After the first egg they began to come fast, and soonall the hens were laying. For weeks we got eight, nine,ten, eleven, and often twelve eggs a day. Then they letup a little, but all through the fall until quite late inOctober, those hens were giving us six to ten eggs a that they slacked up, and by November we weregetting only one or two eggs a day, and soon the
The Farm-poultry . anegg! Tis nothing to the fussing and crowing the own-ers of hens do when the hens are laying well. And theworrying when they dont lay well—hut of that Ill havesomething particular further on in my story. After the first egg they began to come fast, and soonall the hens were laying. For weeks we got eight, nine,ten, eleven, and often twelve eggs a day. Then they letup a little, but all through the fall until quite late inOctober, those hens were giving us six to ten eggs a that they slacked up, and by November we weregetting only one or two eggs a day, and soon theystopped entirely. By this time they were moltingheavily. My friend James advised me to sell them forpoultry, and replace them with early hatched he, Those hens have laid themselves out. It willtake them half the winter to finish molting, and theywont lay much before March. Youve aone well onthem, but if you feed them now for three or four monthswithout getting any eggs to speak of, theyll have eaten. First White Vvandotte Cockerel. Boston. 1908. Vinner of Shapeand Color Specials. J. W. Andrews, Dighton. Mass. all your profits before they begin to pay again. Sellthem, and buy a dozen early pullets that will lay for youwhile eggsare high. That sounded right, so I sold the lot to the hen cartfive months to a day from the time I bought the exception of two or three, they were in goodcondition, and I got within two dollars of what I paidfor them. It had cost me not quite six dollars to feedthem, the scraps from our table and that of our landladyhelping out a great deal on feed. I hadnt kept countof eggs used, but what we had sold came to —soI figured that we had cleared a little over a dollar a henfor five months, allowing that what eggs we used paidfor the care. On such results it was easy as could be tofigure out a profit of two dollars a hen in twelve was just as enthusiastic over the prospect as I evening of the day we sold
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