32 HOW I MADE $10,000 IN ONE YEAR 



tember or October. Your second pullets will take their 

 place. You can easily sell them as layers if you are in 

 a poultry-keeping- district and you should get at least 

 $1.00 each for them. In this way you will get back a 

 large part if not all of the last $850 you needed, the cost 

 of the second year's pullets. You might think that at 

 $1.00 each you would get it all back and more, too, but 

 you will have lost some of them — we all lose hens. 



Another plan would be to raise six or seven hundred 

 pullets the second year, reducing your needed capital by 

 the difference, and carry over three or four hundred of 

 the first pullets through a second laying season, selling 

 the remainder. Notice particularly that you are advised 

 to raise and carry more pullets on this plan than yearling 

 hens. This is important. You must not lose sight, even 

 for a moment, of the fact that you will be faced with 

 three or four "lean" months in the fall of your second year 

 when your first pullets are moulting, and you must cover 

 those months by the earnings of newly-raised pullets. To 

 do this you must have more new layers than old moulters. 

 If you make the total flock 1,000 birds on this plan you 

 are taking up what leeway you had between the prob- 

 able earnings of 1,000 pullets and the $1,000 to $1,200 you 

 thought you wanted to clear, and you will make less net 

 money the second year than you did the first. You can 

 help overcome this difference by mating the carry-over 

 birds during your second spring and using your own eggs 

 for hatching, also selling the surplus eggs for hatching 

 purposes. 



In this way you should clear as much the second year 

 as the first — if you find the market for the surplus hatch- 



