CHAPTER V. 
STARTING AND CAPITAL 
Presuming that you have decided upon a 
location and a breed, my experience as to the 
best time to start, would be in the very early 
spring, with a fair number of yearling hens 
or pullets. Hens in the spring are fairly easy 
for even the inexperienced to care for. Win- 
ter with the necessary confinement of the 
hens, with the consequent liability to disease, 
having past, it is to be presumed that what- 
ever hens one could get at that time would 
be ordinarily healthy. As spring weather 
approaches they would be fairly safe from 
little mistakes one might make. Spring is 
nature’s time of re-invigoration and life 
generally does better at that time than at 
any other season. 
The second reason for starting in the early 
spring is that from then on for six months 
you would not only get the experience of 
taking care of the hens at the easiest period, 
but from the start you would begin to get 
considerable revenue in the way of eggs to 
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