201 ANIMALS 



FOR PROFIT 



Raising fancy chickens looks attractive, but 

 it requires much experience to get the goods 

 and much reputation to sell them; the risks are 

 also great, so that unless one loves to fuss with 

 fancy poultry it is not an encouraging field. 



But to raise chickens of the ordinary variety, 

 good for laying and for table use, much less 

 fussing is necessary. A 200-egg incubator is 

 filled twice in a season with fresh eggs, gathered 

 from neighboring farms and henneries. Eggs 

 laid the very day of collection are preferred, 

 for those a week old are quite apt to be infertile. 

 Practically all of those eggs will hatch and pro- 

 duce vigorous birds which will begin to lay early. 

 No effort is made to secure any particular variety 

 and only the most active and healthy are re- 

 served for winter laying. Over-breeding has 

 produced so many disabilities in fowls as in other 

 animals that wise egg producers are now experi- 

 menting with cross-breeds. So far the plan has 

 proven most successful. 



Even a few chickens can be made to pay on 

 a farm, particularly where the food is raised 

 for them, so that nothing extra has to be bought ; 



