POULTRY RAISING 51 



CHAPTER XIX. 



When and how to start in the poultry business. 



Now comes the important part to the one who is 

 going to start in the business when to start, and how. 

 Now in either case you should start in the Fall if you 

 wish to start on a large scale. For your buildings 

 should be put up in the Fall, even if j'ou start by buy- 

 ing your eggs and raising your own breeders. This 

 is by far the cheapest way to start if you have not 

 much capital. Get your incubator house ready in the 

 Fall, providing you have not a house cellar which will 

 answer for your first year. 



You can get your brooders all right in the 

 Spring if you only raise breeders, but cannot start 

 so early as where you have a brooder house. But the 

 Cornell Colony House Brooder can be used out of 

 doors very early in the Spring anytime after March 

 1st, as a rule. Pullets hatched middle of March should 

 lay in August under my system of feeding, and keep 

 right at it from then on. I can sell you all the eggs 

 you want from either single eomb white Leghorns or 

 White Wyandottes, produced under my system of 

 feeding, at $6.00 per 100, in any quantity, on short 

 notice ; eggs that will run go per cent fertile right in 

 January. Now to the one who is well fixed, financial- 

 ly, I advise him to start in the Fall. I advise putting 

 up your laying houses during July and August, a^d 

 buy your pullets as early as possible during the Fall. 

 October and November are usually the two months 

 when you can buy cheaper than at any other time of 

 the year. 



You should have no trouble to buy all the' pullets 

 and yearling hens you want of single comb white 

 Leghorns during these two months at $i.od each. 

 This is a very satisfactory way to start, but not so 

 cheap as buying the eggs and raising your own stock. 

 You must buy eggs of a party who feeds little or no 



