COMPLAINTS ARE FEW 



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in the form of baby chicks, ready for the brooder, his interest is 

 aroused, and the farmer is fast becoming a regular customer. 



Chick producers will do well to direct their appeal more directly 

 to this class of trade, and not so much to the beginners. The 

 farmers produce the bulk of our poultry, and the chances are 

 they always will. Furthermore, they produce it more or less 

 as a side line, at the least possible outlay for grain, labor, housing 

 and range. 



(Courtesy Watson Mfg. Company) 

 Fig. 179. — Double-deck mammoth incubators of large capacity. 



Few Complaints. — It is curious, perhaps, but poultrymen de- 

 clare they receive fewer complaints over the sale of baby chicks 

 than with hatching eggs, therefore they prefer to sell chicks. 

 This anomaly is attributed to the fact that the customer may se- 

 cure unsatisfactory results from eggs, for which he is practically 

 certain to blame the poultryman, when in reality the customer's 

 ignorance or carelessness, or the integrity of his hens or incubator, 

 is entirely at fault. 



It must be admitted that any one of a dozen things can befall 



