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attention. Later on, if found desirable, the business may be in- 
tensified and the method of management changed to meet changed 
conditions. 
Time to Start—For the production of market eggs the best 
time to begin actual operations will be with the spring hatching. 
The houses may be built during the summer and made ready for 
the mature pullets in the fall. This will give good results in the 
least possible time. When it is desirable to start with adult birds 
for egg production, it will be necessary to have the houses built 
during the fall and winter and have the birds in them by January, 
so that they can be fed and cared for at least two months before 
the eggs are saved for hatching. 
Where market broilers are the object, the incubator and brooder 
houses should be completed by the first of September, so that the 
first hatches can be accommodated by that time. The broilers 
may then be ready by Thanksgiving time, which is the opening 
of the broiler season. 
All things considered, the spring of the year will generally 
be the best time to start, as the birds can be cared for during the 
summer much easier than during the winter. It is cheaper to 
hatch and rear young birds than to purchase a considerable num- 
ber of adults. The buyer of adults is not always sure of getting 
good layers. The purchase of a few adults of known ancestry and 
good breeding is the safest way to start. Their eggs may be 
hatched and a good strain built up in that way. 
To Achieve Success.—A small beginning, with from 200 to 
500 birds, in connection with some other branch of farm work, 
from which the support of the family can come, may develop in 
a few years into a sound and profitable business. The growth of 
the work each year can be governed by the success attained, by 
allowing the profits to pay for each yearly increase. This method, 
combined with as much previous practical training as possible, 
will be a safe guarantee of success and will afford a pleasant occu- 
pation to any prospective poultryman. 
Hindrances to Success.—The three main causes of failure are 
the following: (1) A wrong personality of the poultryman him- 
self, in not being suited either mentally or physically to the work. 
(2) Next in importance is the nonattention to details, or leaving 
them to others whose interest is not what it should be. (3) Start- 
ing with weak, impure, or poorly bred birds. This last factor seri- 
ously needs to be considered, and it will pay the purchaser well 
