PART ONE 



A discussion from the standpoint of one who wishes to 

 enter the work of egg-farming, who is not yet located 

 and has not bought property, but who wishes to buy 

 land at the start. 



Location 



The important consideration in locating an egg farm is 

 the matter of market. If you follow in the writer's foot- 

 steps your main objective in life is the production of eggs 

 for table use. Time is your greatest enemy because it 

 works against your product the moment the egg is laid. 

 Your problem then is to put that egg on the market in 

 the shortest possible time. For this reason, if you have 

 the choice, locate your egg farm as close as you can to 

 a good all-the-year-round market. Don't go out on the 

 desert because land is cheap there. And don't think a 

 location is first class because it is close to a summer or 

 winter resort where people flock during a part of the 

 year. You will have eggs to sell 12 months in the year 

 and you want a 12-month market. 



Your plant should be within reasonable trucking 'or 

 shipping distance of some large marketing center where 

 eggs are handled in large quantities. If poultry plants 

 are being conducted in the section where you think of 

 locating or starting, ask the people running such plants 

 about the market facilities. If you intend starting in a 

 new section, consider its location with reference to the 

 primary marketing point — in California, for instance, San 

 Francisco and Los Angeles are the two primary market- 

 ing points. If no poultry people are available for the 



