6 POULTRY SECRETS REVEALED. 



advantage this profit may be largely Increased. The demand for 

 reliable fresh §ggs is always ahead of the supply. There are many 

 consumers who will gladly pay 50 cents per dozen on yearly contract 

 for dependable eggs. Such customers must be sought; but once found 

 they will stick, so long as the breeder does his part. 



Eggs for hatching pay still better, since one may obtain anything 

 from fifty cents to fifty dollars per setting for such eggs. The tide 

 of trade in this line begins flowing in February, reaches its flood in 

 April and slowly ebbs until the end of June. The eggs for hatching 

 trade can be made very profltable if one has good birds and a good 

 business head. 



To be a successful poultryman — no matter what line one may 

 follow — requires good judgment, and a capacity for hard work. You 

 cannot learn to raise poultry by sitting at ease in your city home, 

 even though you should "bite" at every "system" swindle or fraudulent 

 mail order poultry "school." These "system" hawks and "school" rats 

 prey upon the ignorant, the lazy and the credulous, who have been 

 misled by big promises in flaming advertisements. 



The successful breeder has learned that the only school that can 

 be depended on is the school of experience. The man who has gradu- 

 ated from this school is equipped for success in the poultry business 

 and will not be misled by advertisements of systems or instructions 

 by mail on how to make money on poultry for a two cent stamp. 



As to location: your best location is where you are. The poultry 

 business has this advantage — that there is no place in all this broad 

 land where poultry and eggs will not yield handsomely. North, south, 

 east and west, from Maine to California, and from the Yukon to the 

 Gulf the poultryman is king. The cattle breeder is confined to the 

 west and parts of the south; the pork raiser is largely limited to the 



