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tilated. Do not place your ventilators so that any draught will 

 strike your flock, 



Next as to the breed. That depends upon what purpose you in- 

 tend to keep your poultry for. If you want an egg producing strain 

 alone, and care nothing about the size or weight, then the small 

 breeds, such as the Leghorn, Minorcas or Hamburgs will answer 

 your purpose; but if you want eggs and flesh combined, then raise 

 any of thv larger breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandotte^* 

 or Games. Some will say, "What about the Brahmas or Langshans, 

 I answer, leave them alone. For as the boy says, ''They are not in 

 ir.'' You must raise a breed that will furnish you a goodly number 

 of eggs, and when they are two years old, can be disposed of to an 

 advantage. Then again you want a fowl that is in demand, and 1 

 M'aut to impress this on you. The fowl that is in demand is the 

 clean, yellow leg and flesh one. A man not posted in these matters, 

 decides to ship a box of live or dressed poultry to the market. He 

 has yellow legs, white legs, black legs and feathered legs, in his 

 consignment. He sends them and gets his returns, which we will 

 say, for illustration, is nine cents per pound, and he looks up the 

 quotations and finds that the market is paying nine to eleven cents 

 per pound. His neighbor who has given the matter more attention, 

 has selected a yellow leg and skin breed. He ships at the same time 

 and his returns are eleven and may be twelve cents per pound. He 

 tells our friend about it and the question arises in our friend's 

 mind, "'Why didn't I get eleven or twelve cents instead of nine cents 

 X^er pound." I will tell you why he didn't,. You farmers all know 

 that if you ship a barrel of apples, half of them good and the balance 

 specked or rotten, you don't get the top price, but if you ship a bar- 

 rel of selected fruit, your returns will be the highest quotation, pro- 

 viding the market is not overstocked. You must raise something 

 that everybody does not raise, and there is no danger of overstock- 

 ing the market with first class goods. First class goods are always 

 in demand; the same in the poultry business as any other business. 



How am I to raise my poultry, is the next question. Having pro- 

 vided yourself with the proper buildings and selected your own 

 breed, the above question presents itself. Purchase one or two 

 incubators, you might in order to get the experience purchase a 

 fifty egg capacity machine for ,f5.00, but you can learn just as well, 

 if not better, with a 200 egg machine. What you want to do, is to 

 hatch the number you intend hatching, all about the same time and 

 as fast as you can do it. Chickens must be produced and handled 

 in fair size quantities, the same as eggs to be profiitable. In order 

 to show you what can be done, we will take for an illustration, that 

 we have a source to produce 200 eggs a week, then purchase three 

 incubators of the 200 e^^ capacity. Now yon can set 800 eggs every 



