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plan eliminates many of the costs involved in selling hatching 

 eggs, though it does not bring the returns which the other 

 plan does. Mrs. Wm. A. Klein of Putnam county, 111., has 

 been selling Barred Rock eggs to a nearby hatchery, receiving 

 several cents per dozen above market price. Another who has 

 followed this practice is Mrs. Wm. M. Rhine of Montgomery 

 county. 111., who received five cents each for the eggs. 



This plan ofifers considerable possibility to those who are 

 near to hatcheries, and those whose flock is not large enough 

 to justify advertising the eggs for sale. It is doubtful, however, 

 if the hatchery trade is worth going after if one has a good 

 flock for which a reputation is already established. 



Producing Winter Eggs 



Egg prices are always much higher from October until the 

 last of January than at any other season. The iarm poultry 

 raiser who has learned the trick of making the hens lay in this 

 "off" season gets ample reward in liberal egg checks. It is"at 

 this season, that city trade will pay the largest premium for 

 fresh eggs, due to the difficulty of securing them and to the 

 storage eggs that reach the market then. 



The essential points in securing eggs in the months of high 

 prices are proper feeding, proper housing and a productive 

 flock. Complete discussion of this matter will be found 

 elsewhere in this volume. 



Selling Baby Chicks 



The baby chick business is pretty strongly established, and 

 ofifers a fine chance of financial reward to the person who has 

 the right knack and patience. "I sold 900 Wyandotte baby 

 chicks last spring at 15 cents apiece," says Mrs. W. H. Rigsby 

 of Christian county, 111. "They are easy to dispose of. Good, 

 lively, healthy chicks are easily sold about as fast as they can 

 be hatched." 



Mrs. Arthur Heap of Kendall county, 111., sold 843 baby 

 chicks at 15 cents last spring, besides hatching 1,050 chicks 

 for her own flock. "I sell them the day they are hatched, and 

 there is very little risk," she writes. "I am satisfied that there 

 is more money in the baby chick business than in any other 

 branch of the poultry industry." 



The baby chick business calls for a healthy purebred flock, 

 and if managed on a modest scale does not call for any extra 



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