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information go into these cities, find the produce mar- 

 keting centers, consult with egg dealers, (you can find 

 them in the city directories if in no other way), and learn 

 from them how they would treat you in the matter of 

 buying your product. If you find a better market than 

 they offer you well and good; but make certain before 

 you start that there will be a ready market for eggs pro- 

 duced in the section you have in mind. 



Locating in a section where there are other egg and 

 poultry farms has many advantages. Where a consid- 

 erable number of such farms are operated there is 

 usually an arrangement by some egg buyer for regular 

 trips by trucks to pick up the eggs and return empty 

 cases. This is a big advantage. If you are entirely new 

 to the work you will feel much more comfortable at it if 

 there is someone within hailing distance should you get 

 into serious doubt or trouble over any phase of the work. 



Be sure you are not following some real estate boom, 

 though. The country is full of poultry-wrecks, the result 

 of some real estate boomer advertising a tract of land 

 as a poultry colony regardless of its fitness for such work. 

 Ifyour choice is some place where you can find a plant 

 that has been in operation for years and that is not all 

 run down at the heels and ready for the junk man, all the 

 better. This would indicate that somebody made a go 

 of chickens in that locality and if he did it you can. 



Your nearness to market means also that you will be 

 close to feed and supplies — and the closer you are to a 

 district where grain and feed is grown, the cheaper will 

 be your feed bills. 



Avoid, if you can, locating your plant very close to a 



