If it be desirable to have fresh eggs during winter

If it be desirable to have fresh eggs during winter

If it be desirable to have fresh eggs during winter

If it be desirable to have fresh eggs during winter - and that is certainly a convenience - a box stove may be set in the living room, and properly protected by a grating around it, for warming the living apartment. It may be remarked, however, that this winter-laying of hens is usually a forcing business. A hen will lay but about a given number of eggs in a year; say a hundred - we believe this is about the number which the most observant of poultry-keepers allow them - and what she lays in winter must be subtracted from the number she would otherwise lay in the spring, summer, or autumn. Yet a warm house will, laying, aside, keep the fowls with less food, and in greater comfort, than if cold, and left to their own natural warmth.