18 EGGS AND POULTRY: 
along very smoothly resulting in the hatch- 
ing and rearing of about 900 chicks, of which 
about 450 were sold as broilers and the re- 
maining 450 pullets added to the flock, which 
then totalled 800. 
A 40-foot addition was built on the laying 
house making it 120 feet long. The extra 
eggs from the flock of 400 were sold to the 
home customers and to one hotel that took 
30 dozen a week. In eight months this flock 
laid 33,000 eggs, all of which were sold at fair 
prices, only a few being sold at 28 cents a 
dozen, the balance from 30 to 45 cents. I 
feel now, that the hardest part of the task of 
building up a little business has been accom- 
plished and that it will be comparatively easy 
to bring the flock up to 1,200 or 1,500 during 
the fourth year. With a continually increas- 
ing market, I do not hesitate to aim for that 
number. 
The following pages will be devoted to en- 
larging on particular features of the business 
met in the starting and development of my 
plant. All of these points will have to be met 
and solved by every man beginning the busi- 
ness. Profits, cost of houses, selling of the 
eggs, capital needed, mistakes made—just 
the things that a man with the “chicken 
fever” wants to know, will be gone into from 
