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latter case the chances are ten to one that you are buy- 

 ing someone's culls, or what he thinks are culls ; and 

 there is an even chance that you are buying some early 

 moulting hens, especially if you get them along in Novem- 

 ber or December. 



All of this is entirely too haphazard for you may find, 

 when October 1st arrives, that instead of replacing your 

 old hens with 1,000 pullets you have instead 200 or 300 

 birds of more or less uncertain age and of still more 

 uncertain pedigree, and your year is wasted, which means 

 that you will have to look to other sources for your in- 

 come and livelihood. 



The writer has known of one or two instances where 

 people have bought as many as several hundred very 

 good pullets that he himself would have bought had the 

 chance offered ; and picking up a dozen birds that would 

 make a wonderful showing is not unusual, but relying 

 on such chances has no place in commercial egg-farming. 



You must learn the trick of caring for baby chicks. 

 Whether you start with hatching eggs or with baby 

 chicks from some poultryman or from a commercial 

 hatchery is immaterial so far as this phase of the matter 

 is concerned. But if you do not care to undertake the 

 drudgery and the close confinement involved in prop- 

 erly brooding and handling baby chicks you had better 

 not enter commercial egg-farming. 



