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How to Start. 



The easiest way to get started, so far as the birds are 

 concerned, would be to buy pullets nearly or quite ma- 

 tured. Many people base their plans on such a scheme. 



From a basic standpoint the idea is wrong- and if you 

 expect to succeed you had better get rid of the notion at 

 the very start. There is only one secret of success in the 

 work the handling' and raising of baby chicks, and unless 

 you learn to do this you will fail. This is because of the 

 uncertainty of being able to buy pullets of the kind you 

 must have, birds that were hatched at the right time, the 

 offspring of the right kind of stock, and a sufficient num- 

 ber of them. There may be places where you can buy 

 pullets to fill this bill, at prices you can afford to pay, 

 but if so the writer is not aware of it. To put it stilt' 

 plainer, you must be able to place an order for say 1,000 

 pullets, hatched March 1st to 30th, out of the right kind 

 of stock, at a price not to exceed $1.50, for delivery about 

 August 15th. At the price named you would be paying 

 $650.00 more for the birds than the estimate made as to 

 the cost of raising them yourself. 



You can buy pullets and so-called pullets; and at 

 times you can pick up a few, even a few dozen, here 

 and there that are worth buying. People who raised 

 them are moving away or have grown tired of putting 

 money into them without returns, or sickness disrupts 

 the plan that caused them to be raised. At times some 

 would-be egg-farmer becomes disgusted or his money 

 gives out, and you might pick up several hundred. Under 

 such circumstances you can buy them for a dollar and 

 even less. Again, you can buy them of dealers. In the 



