42 EGGS AND POULTRY 
have a fair knowledge of the business from 
all sides, and having spent a healthful year 
outdoors, should feel ready to conquer any- 
thing. This should bring you success. 
If you bought the 244-egg incubator at 
$32.00 the first year, you would by the end 
of the season understand running these 
machines and the results would have paid for 
it. Therefore, this item is not included in the 
estimates. You would also be prepared the 
following year to breed from your own pul- 
lets but should you do so it would be advis- 
able to get two year old roosters of some 
other poultryman, for it is generally con- 
ceded that pullets and two year old roosters 
or vice versa make stronger chickens than do 
pullets and cockerels as parents. These es- 
timates, as you will note, cover only eight 
months, April to December, as by that time 
the pullets will begin to lay and new calcula- 
tions be made necessary. 
Any directions given here for running an 
incubator would be superfluous as the manu- 
facturers of incubators send out full instruc- 
tions for managing them and each manufac- 
turer knows the good points of his machine 
better than anyone else. 
