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cent basis there would be more better paying plants. This 

 is a sure way to find a high class poultry manager, for he is 

 bound to take more interest in his work, so he can increase his 

 salary, for the harder he works the more he is making, and 

 the owner of the plant, also. 



Men with money make one great mistake by allowing a new 

 manager to spend too much money on houses and stock before 

 they know whether they have a manager who really knows his 

 business. A manager should lay his foundation in the follow- 

 ing way : 



First, he should visit a poultry plant which has a good rep- 

 utation and has won at the big shows with the variety that he 

 intends to breed and buy a trio. He should be very careful in 

 making the selection as this trio should be the real foundation 

 of his success. Of course, if he were to pick out one of the 

 best trios that a breeder had, he should expect to pay a good 

 price, for high class birds are worth it. From this trio he 

 should start line breeding as described on another page in this 

 book. From the same breeder that he bought the trio, he 

 should order eggs from his best mating to hatch two hundred 

 chickens, the eggs to be shipped on an average of three set- 

 tings a week until he had hatched two hundred. My favorite 

 time to start would be the first of January. With only the 

 trio to care for, that would give plenty of time to build brood 

 coops and yards which would be needed in the spring for the 

 hens and their chicks. After having the brood coops built, 

 which would be about twenty in number, he should start build- 

 ing the breeding houses and yards which would be needed for 

 the growing chickens in the winter. 



By starting with a trio, it gives one plenty of time, outside 

 of caring for growing chickens, to build all coops and yards 

 needed for the first year. From the first of January to the 

 first of September would be the hardest months, for all the 



