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each hen. This has been done a great many times and hun- 

 dreds can prove it. 



Now, fifty hens treated the same way can do the same; 

 but this is where the trouble comes. Why? Because you 

 do not give them all the same care, and range, and show. 

 This you must do or you cannot make $1.00 net on each hen. 

 You must work for it the same as in any other business. 



The best all around chicken for the market is between 

 the Rhode Island Red and the Buff Wyandotte. The best 

 layer of the two is the Rhode Island Red, and as for the 

 market, it is six of one and half a dozen of the other. The 

 Rhode Island Reds are next in laying 1 to the Langshans. 

 They are better than the Buff Wyandottes or any other 

 breed. They are hardy and have always been bred for lay- 

 ers, and had to rough it for wild fowls. This breed origi- 

 nated in Rhode Island, and farmers down there have quit 

 fancy stock and have gone to egg farming. Some keep as 

 many as three thousand hens, one hundred in each house, one 

 hundred in each house on the colony plan. They are never 

 yarded and are always on free range. They are used to all 

 manner of rough life, cold, wet and dampness. As the 

 entire state is low and wet, it does not affect them, as they 

 are accustomed to it. 



Egg Farm Pays. 



My advice is to go in the egg farm business and have 

 houses all over the farm. Don't crowd; fifty in one house is 

 plenty; and if on free range the year round you can at least 

 net Si. 00 each from each hen; and if you have one thousand 

 hens you can make a good living at small cost. Say twelve 

 houses, 12x24 including shed, as per blue print. Each house 

 will cost you about $25.00, and are good for twenty years if 

 kept in repair. You don't want anything better and easier 

 than this. You don't have to bother with fences and gates, 

 long, expensive houses, separate pens and troughs for each 

 twelve hens. You can get twsnty-five cents per dozen for 

 your eggs the year around at private houses and hotels and 



