9© STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Incubators. 



When you buy an incubator get the best in the market, and 

 get a big one. You can run a large one with almost the same 

 work and expense as a small one, thus you have your chickens 

 all of the same age, and if there should be more than you wish 

 for there is always a sale for incubator chicks. In fact, one 

 can do a good business in selling newly hatched chicks. Three 

 years ago I sold several hundred and the next year had inquiries 

 for two thousand more than I could furnish. 



The cockerels hatched in March and early April will sell at 

 a good profit as broilers in June, thus leaving the field clear to 

 the pullets. 



Colony House. 



We like the colony house plan, building them about 7x12 feet 

 and putting two Peep o' Day brooders into one house with from 

 fifty to seventy-five chicks in each brooder. The pullets remain 

 in the colony houses until time to go into winter quarters. 



Thoroughbreds. 



It pays to keep thoroughbred stock of some variety. Then 

 your eggs are uniform and you can gradually work up a sale 

 for eggs for hatching. The large brown egg always sells 

 better in Maine and Massachusetts than a white one. Eggs 

 sell higher in Boston than almost anywhere in the country. 

 Last month for large brown eggs we got ten cents per dozen 

 more than the markets near home were paying. So a person 

 intending to go into the business will do well to consider the 

 size and color of the egg as well as the kind of stock. 



Poultry is one of the industries a woman can work at and 

 still do her housework (if there is not too much of it). Two 

 years ago I kept an account of what I made on chickens alone. 

 From the cost of the eggs in the incubators up to September 

 I cleared $56 in cash and I had on hand one hundred and six 

 pullets worth one dollar each, thus making a total of $162. 

 And this, you see, was only the chicken side of the business, as 

 the man of the house was attending the hens and egg depart- 

 ment. 



