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But while it is true that the farmer's subsidized hens 

 have a very disastrous effect at times upon the market, the 

 fact is that, notwithstanding the tariff, we import millions 

 of dozens of eggs laid each year by the pauper hens of Canada 

 and often of Denmark. 



Another fact to be considered is, that it is when eggs are 

 most plentiful that the farmers depress the market. With 

 their ways of handling their poultry, their hens lay only 

 when conditions are most favorable, and in the winter when 

 eggs are as high as fifty cents a dozen in cities, they have 

 no eggs to market. Like the market gardener, to be timely 

 in market is to succeed. A week may mean an annihilation 

 of profits. 



It is a different proposition to raise a few chickens as a 

 side line as the farmers do. 



A workman at the Connecticut place of one of the experts 

 who has revised this book had a bit of land not more than 

 100 X 200 feet, and for several years cleared $100 a year by 

 raising eggs and broilers, doing the work together with that 

 of a little garden of small fruits before and after working 

 hours. The chickens fed largely on green food in summer. 



In selling your surplus at a profit, the same principles 

 apply as in raising a surplus to sell at a profit. 



While poultry and egg raising does not require that you 

 must be first, it does require that you market your produce 

 at a time when the prices are highest. 



You must hatch at a time which will allow the young 

 hens to begin laying as winter approaches; the food must 

 keep up animal heat and the house must be warm enough 

 to make the hens comfortable, and the conditions must be 

 such as to keep them laying. 



As an experiment, we once raised six pullets. They were 



