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break her up in twenty-four hours, just put her with a 

 bunch of surplus cockerels, where a roost is handy, and 

 your hen will not think of setting. 



There is no breed at the present time so handsome as 

 the White Wyandotte, when bred up for show purposes, 

 and no fowl that makes so fine a broiler and roaster when 

 they are grown up healthy and rugged, that is, nature's 

 way, and this can be done on the feeding I have outlined 

 on my free-range system. You can get eggs right in 

 January that will run from 80 to 90 per cent, fertile, and 

 give you grand hatches of strong, rugged chicks that can 

 be easily raised right in the winter — and you will have 

 no trouble to dispose of hundreds of laying pullets dur- 

 ing September, October, and November at $2 each. 

 There is a grand profit raising pullets at this price, when 

 you can raise 90 per cent, and more of all the chicks you 

 hatch, and raise them largely on a feed that costs you 

 only 8 to 10 cents a bushel. So you can easily see what 

 a profit you can make by running a large plant my way. 



Your small feed bills would surprise you, after feeding 

 the old way. 



I am positive $10,000 a year can easily be made ofif a 

 plant of three thousand layers, and even more when you 

 work into high-class show birds and get $3 to $5 a set- 

 ting for many of your eggs, and $15 a hundred. 



Sell high-class birds from $10 each up to a hundred. 

 It can be done by pluck and perseverence. 



A White Wyandotte plant of three thousand layers 

 could turn in a greater profit than the same number of 

 any other breed fed, and run my way, which is nature's 

 way, providing it was handled by a White Wyandotte 

 fancier who thoroughly knew the value of his birds. 



