The question which is the title of this chapter is asked over and over again. You see it propounded to the editor of almost every poultry paper in the country. And it is a difficult one to answer, because the various needs of different people are so diversified. April and May are doubtless the natural hatching seasons for all varieties. Climatic conditions are then kinder, the food which is necessary for the production of many eggs, and eggs of the strong hatchable kind, is supplied by Nature in great abundance, and the young chick coming into life in these months finds a great variety of natural food of the very best kind for growth awaiting it. In Spring eggs run strongly fertile, and in every way Nature seems to lend herself to successful hatching, and the starting of the young chick properly on its journey. The man, however, who is operating an egg farm, and has made contracts for the delivery of a continuous supply of eggs to exacting customers, cannot well afford to wait until these months to hatch in, for it is necessary for him to have a large number of pullets reaching maturity and beginning to lay, before his last year’s pullets reach the moulting period and stop egg production. To accomplish this it is necessary to have in his brooder house, by not later than the first week of March, a goodly number of yellow babies. From that time on he must keep them coming, so as to have a sufficient number a few weeks apart to take the place of the yearling hens going into the moult. In this way he will succeed in keeping up a continuous flow of eggs. It is true there is a danger in these early hatched pullets. They may go into what is called the Winter moult, after laying well into the month of December, but they will not all moult, and before there is a marked shrinkage the later hatches will be laying strongly. The moult which occurs with early hatched birds does not last as long as the moult coming in the regular season. The birds soon return to the nest, and the house rapidly jumps back to a very large output of eggs for the coming Spring months. Thus the great increase in numbers helps to offset the decrease in price, and to equalize the bank account. It must be remembered, however, that Leghorns hatched up to the 25th of June make good Winter layers provided they are properly cared for, and given the food and attention which produces a great growth, and under such conditions one will find no difficulty in getting them into laying eggs readily by the time they are five months of age. An Interesting Experiment in Late Hatching