BRANCHES OF THE POULTRY BUSINESS 



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in incubators at times when customers are in need. 

 Until the poultry raiser has become proficient in 

 artificial hatching he should not attempt to branch 

 out in this line, nor should he begin to advertise 

 widely until he can care for a considerable volume 

 of business. The development of a local business 

 will usually pay well enough and with less risk and 

 expense than an advertised business of this kind. 

 Where he has worked up a good utility strain of 

 fowls he can thus probably do much better himself 

 as well as be of far 

 greater help to his neigh- 

 borhood. 



The wide increase in 

 numbers of a specially 

 good strain of utility 

 fowls that are doing 

 well for him should be a 

 source of greatly 

 creased income to any 

 locality. Far from work- 

 ing against the owner, as 

 some may suppose, such a development should help. 

 It might easily be the foundation of a special trade 

 for the district in dressed poultry or eggs, or both, 

 a trade that could command higher prices in the 

 market. 



The monetary advantages of selling day old 

 chicks, only the man who does the hatching can 

 decide. Some of the items he should consider are 

 the original cost of the eggs, the price at which he 

 could sell these for hatching, the percentage of 

 chicks he can reasonably count on, the cost of hatch- 

 ing the individual chick, and the reasonable amount 

 he should add to the producing price to give him a 



in- CRATE FOR CHICK SHIPPING 



Each tray in four parti- 

 tions. Burlap lined and sur- 

 rounded wlien in use. 



