BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



disposition to work off on the " practical " grower any- 

 thing he will not positively refuse to take, sometimes 

 makes it very difficult for a market poultry grower to 

 deal with them. 



18. Should Broiler and Roaster Growers " Make" 

 Their Own Eggs for Hatching? — Most of those grow- 

 ing them in large numbers either do not, or' produce only a 



part o f what they 

 need. The practical 

 difficulty in the way 

 of a grower providing 

 the eggs needed to 

 hatch out a large num- 

 ber of chicks in winter 

 is that it would require 

 so large a stock of lay- 

 ing hens to produce 

 the eggs needed that 

 the grower cannot 

 handle both branches 

 of the business. The 

 soft roaster growers 

 R. c. Rhode Island Red Cockerel. have until very re- 

 cently produced practically none of the eggs they used. 

 Within a few years many of them have begun to build up 

 stocks of breeding fowls from which to produce their own 

 eggs, but there are few, if any, that do not still buy the 

 most of the eggs they use. These eggs are bought from 

 farmers throughout the vicinity. The large and steady 

 demand for eggs for this purpose at a price considerably in 

 advance of regular market prices is a strong inducement to 



