SELECTING A BREED 
ferent lots of chicks which would require different 
feed and treatment the summer through. All your 
purchased eggs will not hatch; neither do those 
produced at home all hatch. Broody hens may 
bring with them lice and disease; but you would 
need to buy broody hens to hatch the eggs from 
your own pen of birds, unless you let them stop 
laying in order to hatch and raise their own chicks, 
and that would be neither wise nor profitable. 
Prices of eggs usually run from one dollar to 
five dollars, per setting, though ten dollars or 
fifteen dollars per setting are now getting to be 
more or less common prices for eggs from noted 
prize winners. The common prices are three 
dollars and five dollars for eggs from high-class 
exhibition stock; one and one-half to three dollars 
for medium exhibition and good practical stock. 
So-called “incubator eggs” are sold by the hun- 
dred at from four to ten dollars. At the former 
price they are generally from culls,* and used 
mostly for hatching broilers. At the higher price 
they ought to be from very fair breeding stock, 
though probably bred more especially for utility 
purposes. Don’t be afraid to order eggs from a 
distance; the shipment of eggs from a reliable 
breeder, no matter where located that does not 
give results, is the exception rather than the rule. 
*The word ‘cull’? in this sense does not necessarily imply lack of prac- 
tical or utility value, but simply indicates that the fowl is deficient in one or 
more “‘ fancy’? requirements, although descended from good, pure-bred stock. 
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