10 PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



The cost of a well-bred animal, either birH or 

 beast, looks large at first, but this is more than 

 made up by the value such an animal has as a pro- 

 genitor. In no line is this so noticeable as in the 

 egg-laying strains of fowls which have become 

 so popular within the last decade. By means of 

 trap nests and other methods of selection, only those 

 hens that have laid more than a certain minimum of 

 eggs in a year are kept for breeding purposes. Their 

 habit of egg production is confidently looked for in 

 their chicks and those who breed and select them 

 are usually successful. It is only necessary to think 

 a little bit to see the advantage of keeping such 

 stock and then only a little action in the right 

 direction is necessary to enlarge the margin of profit 

 on the balance sheet. 



IMPROVED METHODS OF HATCHING AND 

 REARING 



come next in importance to the keeping of pure- 

 bred fowls and laying strains of hens. The in- 

 cubator, as we know it, has been a practical 

 machine in ordinary hands for only a little over 20 

 years. Now it is so simple that any one with com- 

 mon sense can run it. During the early eighties 

 the number of incubator manufacturers could be 

 counted on the fingers. Now about 100 firms put 

 out machines and several of these sell more than 

 25,000 a year. Such increase, both in the number 

 of firms and the individual outputs, are the 

 strongest possible indications of the practicability 

 of artificial incubation and the prominence and 

 profitableness of poultry raising. 



