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trio should be mated with the best cockerels for spring egg 

 trade. Select the best pullets from hen A and hen B to mate 

 to cock C, which is explained in the chart of the line breeding, 

 shown on page 50. 



Show two or three of your best cockerels and pullets, and 

 if you are lucky enough to win a blue ribbon at one of the large 

 shows, that will help you to make your advertisement stronger, 

 and increase your egg trade. Now by following this plan 

 carefully for three years, the plant could be put on a good 

 paying basis. It is a very easy matter in the Fancy Poultry 

 business for the manager to work up a business of $5,000 to 

 S6,ooo a year, if he goes at it right. The foundation laid at 

 the start means either failure or success, so he should lay his 

 foundation well. 



The working man who wants to start in the poultry busi- 

 ness, should start differently than the moneyed man. It may 

 be necessary for him to keep his job at least a year or two, 

 and attend to his poultry before and after working hours, but 

 he must start just as carefully as the man with money. A man 

 who has to work cannot afford to buy eggs enough from a 

 breeder's best stock to hatch 200 chickens, after buying a trio, 

 so I would advise him not to buy the eggs, but to put all the 

 money he can into the trio. Many working men make a fail- 

 ure of the Fancy Poultry business because they try to start by 

 buying eggs at $3.00 a setting, or they start with a $10.00 trio 

 or $25.00 pen. This is just a waste of time and money and 

 makes a lot of hard work, for competition is too keen for any 

 man to have a ghost of a chance of winning at any of the 

 large shows. With a start of this kind, one must win in the 

 show room if he ever expects to make a living in the Fancy 

 Poultry business. 



Any breeder can afford to sell a high class breeding trio for 

 $100.00, $25.00 each for the ens and $50.00 for the male. If he 



