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ing eggs. Look into the possibility of doing this before 

 deciding which course to pursue. The first course, (sell- 

 ing off the entire first flock), is the surest way. 



If you want to forge ahead, carry over all of the first 

 year's pullets that are worth keeping — you will learn 

 later how we cull them, — mate them all and provide all 

 of your own hatching eggs. Even though you do not 

 find an assured market for your surplus hatching eggs, 

 you will save enough on your own chicks to make it 

 worth while to mate these birds. 



Following this second plan you will have 1,000 pullets 

 and perhaps 800 yearling hens the second year and then 

 you are on a fair road to success and independence. You 

 will need no more outside capital ; you will make enough 

 surplus profit to enable you to build up as large a flock 

 as you may be ambitious enough to strive for and if you 

 follow in the writer's footsteps you will soon be buying 

 a place of your own and putting up the kind of a plant 

 you have meantime come to dream of as the ideal plant 

 for an egg farm. 



Starting Small While Working Elsewhere 



The possibility of getting a start in the work while 

 engaged in other work is a question concerning which we 

 have had many inquiries. It is a pleasure to say this is 

 entirely feasible and possible if you have the right kind 

 of a wife. 



The means and method can best be illustrated by 

 the case of a man who was employed on our place. 

 He left us to take a better paying job as i^ardener on a 

 lai^ge estate. He lived on a city lot. Nearby was a 

 vacant tract of several acres, which he rented or leased 

 by the year. He built a brooder house on his own lot. 



