THE “FANCY” 
bred poultry is to secure their stock from two or 
three different sources and their eggs from still 
another, thus mixing and crossing the blood of 
different strains, regardless of the loss of the 
breeding lines upon which these different strains 
have been developed. 
The beginner, in starting, should consider 
quality rather than quantity. It is often cheaper 
to buy five birds or five settings of eggs for fifty 
dollars than to buy twenty-five for the same 
amount of money. Anyone can breed quantity, 
but it is the work of years to produce quality. It 
is cheaper to start with quality and pay the price 
than to start with quantity and spend years of time 
breeding for quality. As it takes a breeder several 
years to breed a flock up to quality that is recog- 
nized, the beginner can afford to pay him for his 
years of experience and skill. 
Instead of having to sell his eggs at twenty-five 
cents a dozen and his fowls at from twenty-five to 
The Profits | seventy-five cents apiece, the fancier 
inthe Fancy can get from one to five dollars per 
setting for his eggs and from one to five dollars 
each for nearly half of his birds, while a few excep- 
tional specimens may bring several times this 
amount each. 
At the same time there is not such a radical dif- 
ference in the profits from the market and fancy 
_ sides of the business as one would imagine on first 
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