The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-13
chicks

Early matching means:
 More chicks raised.
 Less trouble from lice and disease.
 A longer growing season.
 Better grown chicks.
 Higher prices for cockerel broilers.
 Chicks Smature enough to withstand summer heat.
 Well-matured early-laying bullets.
 Pullets supply eggs while hens are moltinS.
 Egg plentitude at season of high prices.
 Early outlets that become broody sooner, the following spring.
 Fable is transforming into fact. It has been customary in allegorical that lays the golden eggs l view of the present prices of eggs and poultry, 1t begins to look as if the age of the golden eggs had arrived. With market ing conditions for poultry products better than ever before, with sta5i- lized demand for quality products, and with prospects, of larger amounts of feeds being available as a result of tI,e cessation Of war, there is every incen- tive for the poultrymans best efforts.
 fundamental factor which makes for grtater success with hens is D hatch early. The early chick catches the worm both in the garden and in lliS ScOHuIHleS OI pOullrE The poultryman who aspires to beat the calendar and to hatch several weeks ear Her than the cut and dried practice gains an advantage which permits him to market quality cock erels a. less cost and greater profit much in advance of his associates who are remiss in lighting their incubators or setting their hens. Chicks thrive and develop rapidly during the early days of spring; the early matched fowls thus realize full benefits from the prcpitious and longer growing season WHY TO HATCH EARLY The early hatch spells sure profits other conditions being equal, because it fosters the earlier maturity and egg production of the bullets; it induces a stream of eggs at the season when eggs are highest in price; it gives the chicks chance to develop into strong healthy birds before hot weather sets in; it provides a supply of wage earn | ing bullets to replace the old hens in I the flock as soon as the latter birds | begin to develop star boarder charac- 1 teristics; it produces chicks which are
 robust and rugged and better able to
 withstand the attacks of lice and dis
 ease; it means early cockerels for | market when the supply is scant and i the price correspondingly attractive. | Hens take three months vacation every fall during the molting season while they don new plumage. When l the hers are idle. the stream of eggs ceases unless early matched bullets
 are ready to substitute for the older ! fowl as egg producers As fall aui winter eggs are always in demand al profitable prices, early matching re-
 turns rapid dividends where the
 bullets are geared up for active serv- | ice when the hens begin their rest.
 LESS DISEASE AMONG BULLETS Where lice attack the flock, tlie
 smaller. weaker chickens are first 10 succumb. Lice are worse during warm | than cold weather and hence the early l matched chicks are less exposed to 1 such pests while still very young. l Furthermore, immature bullets are
 subject to colds during the fall and l are likely to spread colds throughout; the entire flock. To remedy this diff ficulty, hatch early and have the bullets reasonably well matured when | they are placed in winter quarters.