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to lay in the following October. The sale of the cockerels would, 
to some extent, repay him for the rather heavy food bill. 
By Christmas he would be selling 30 dozen eggs per week, 
provided everything went well, and that he made few mistakes. 
It is a mistake to think that eggs are all profit. A man may be 
selling £10 worth of eggs per week at a profit of only one-fourth 
of that amount. No doubt 30 dozen eggs per week from 200 
fowls at Christmas would yield a very handsome profit, but the 
difficulty is to get a full supply in the winter months. 
If my reader goes into the poultry business, he might begin 
as I suggest, and on the land that is not in use for poultry he should 
grow as many cabbages, swedes and mangolds for chicken food 
as he can pack into the ground. 
