SELECTING A BREED 



ferent lots of chicks which would require different 

 feed and treatment the summer through. All your 

 purchased eggs will not hatch; neither do those 

 produced at home all hatch. Broody hens may 

 bring with them lice and disease; but you would 

 need to buy broody hens to hatch the eggs from 

 your own pen of birds, unless you let them stop 

 laying in order to hatch and raise their own chicks, 

 and that would be neither wise nor profitable. 



Prices of eggs usually run from one dollar to 

 five dollars, per setting, though ten dollars or 

 fifteen dollars per setting are now getting to be 

 more or less common prices for eggs from noted 

 prize winners. The common prices are three 

 dollars and five dollars for eggs from high-class 

 exhibition stock; one and one-half to three dollars 

 for medium exhibition and good practical stock. 

 So-called u incubator eggs " are sold by the hun- 

 dred at from four to ten dollars. At the former 

 price they are generally from culls,* and used 

 mostly for hatching broilers. At the higher price 

 they ought to be from very fair breeding stock, 

 though probably bred more especially for utility 

 purposes. Don't be afraid to order eggs from a 

 distance; the shipment of eggs from a reliable 

 breeder, no matter where located that does not 

 give results, is the exception rather than the rule. 



*The word "cull" in this sense does not necessarily imply lack of prac- 

 tical or utility value, but simply indicates that the fowl is deficient in one or 

 more "fancy" requirements, although descended from good, pure-bred stock. 



