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mencing and producing eggs at the required 

 time. 



For hatching purposes broody hens may 

 be purchased either from neighbouring farms, 

 or an incubator may be used. If it is 

 decided to use this machine, it is essential 

 to exercise great care in its selection. It 

 is a good plan to visit a few poultry- 

 breeders who possess an incubator and to 

 see it at work, and to learn what results 

 have been obtained. 



The poultry-keeper will usually find it 

 better to sell his eggs and poultry near 

 home. The belief that London is the 

 great emporium where high prices are 

 obtained is a mistaken one. Nor would 

 he do much better at hotels or provision 

 dealers' shops. Private customers who know 

 where the produce is grown will pay 

 much better prices, for owing to the great 

 facilities with which eggs and poultry are 

 landed on our shores, they can be placed 

 in the trader's hands fresh enough to 

 sell as English grown. A small holder 

 is seldom able to obtain more than a 

 shilling a dozen for eggs, whereas the 

 trader's prices vary from Is. 2(1. to Is. 3d. 

 a dozen. 



