MAKING A START 
He should also bear in mind that birds 
that lay well under the care of an experi- 
enced poultryman will not always lay so 
well under the care of a novice. 
It would be better, perhaps, for the 
beginner to buy his male birds, for a time 
at least, from the breeder of whom he 
bought his original stock, provided he has 
found him honorable, until such time as 
he has learned something of the business 
and got a good start; for if he attempts 
to improve the egg-laying qualities of his 
birds, right from the start, before he has 
had time to gather any experience, he is 
lable to injure their egg-laying qualities. 
If he intends to continue in the busi- 
ness of producing market eggs, without 
intending to become a breeder, it would 
be better and cheaper for him to buy his 
male birds from an expert who makes a 
business of breeding birds for high egg 
production; and, of course, he should be 
the man from whom the original stock 
was bought, if he has been found to be all 
right in every way. 
He should always buy the males from 
the breeder’s highest egg-producing hens, 
even though they cost several times as 
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