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PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



fair return after deducting the cost of advertising-, 

 correspondence, packages, etc. Some men can sell 

 at even less than lo cents a chick, others charge 15 

 cents or more. Much should depend upon the 

 character of the strain of fov/ls, a really superior 

 strain of egg producers selling for higher prices 

 than chicks of ordinary caliber. It seems custom- 

 ary to charge two and one-half times the price of 

 the egg used for hatching, since it is not safe to 

 figure on more than one chick 

 for every two incubated. This 

 leaves only a small margin of 

 profit. 



From the buyer's standpoint 

 the plan has much to commend 

 it. This is the only method 

 whereby the buyer can count his 

 chickens before they are hatched. 

 If the shipper understands his 

 business as he should the chicks 

 should reach their destination 

 even a thousand miles away in 

 first-class shape. A distinct 

 advantage claimed for the method is that 

 express employees are far more careful of chicks 

 than of eggs for hatching. As to the chicks them- 

 selves, they seem to stand the journey better than 

 if even only a few days older. This. is because they 

 have not yet digested the yolk which seems to be 

 Nature's provision for the early days of chick 

 infancy. 



The hatching egg business, in a great many in- 

 stances, has been unsatisfactory to the seller as 

 well as to the buyer. With the introduction of this 

 somewhat novel branch of the ever-increasing poul- 



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