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ally good local market. The fact of so many failures in this 

 business does not by any means indicate that 'there is not 

 money in broilers, but it does seem to prove that as a separ- 

 ate industry this branch of the poultry business is success- 

 ful in but few cases, under especially favorable conditions 

 only. Handled as a branch of the general business of poul- 

 try farming or in connection with some other pursuit which 

 allows the operator to give his chickens considerable time 

 in the late winter and early spring, the production of broil- 

 ers is decidedly profitable if correctly conducted. 

 Broilers as a Side Issue. 



The egg farmer finds it necessary to do a certain amount 

 of business in broilers in order to rid the plant of the surplus 

 cockerels before they become a nuisance;, the farmer who 

 maintains a flock of one hundred or more layers and the 

 village poultry keeper who winters his two dozen egg pro- 

 ducers may follow the same plan with advantage though 

 9f course they would not have sufficient birds to make what 

 would be called a "broiler business." 



On the combination poultry farms where the business 

 of producing exhibition birds, eggs for market and poultry 

 for food is carried on, and on the strictly utility farms, vfrhere 



An Open Front Shed VS'hich Shelters Outdoor Brooders on a Successful 

 Broiler Plant. 



