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ing with brooders. The only way I find to prevent brooder chicks 

 from drowning in sudden storms, is to enclose them in long yards 

 having at each end the brooder in a shed or house, with a wide en- 

 trance; as wide as the whole side of the house is better. It is much 

 safer to have shelter at both ends of the yards." 



P. F. Daniel, Atlanta, Ga. : "I have only one drawback this 

 season — tuberculosis struck my brooders; which was a new disease 

 to me. It took some time to locate it. I must give credit to the 

 Rhode Island Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 61, for explaining 

 the disease, cause and remedy- — the latter, sunlight and fresh air, 

 which is plentiful here in the Sunny South." 



Market poultry experts generally agree that the most profit- 

 able way of conducting the business is to combine egg farming with 

 broiler raising. In this way a regular income can be maintained the 

 entire year. But just how the combination should be conducted all 

 do not agree. 



Some say, make egg farming the prime object, and only hatch 

 broilers when there is no sale for eggs. We cannot exactly under- 

 stand that logic, as there is constantly, every day in the year, a call 

 for this article, and the supply do€s not equal the demand. It must 

 be that the writer has reference to the retail trade. 



In some sections of the country eggs take a decided drop as 

 soon as spring opens, while in other sections the prices remain good 

 until summer. Where contracts are made at a certain figure for 

 the entire year, of course it becomes another matter. 



To our liking, we should say, sell eggs as long as prices arc 

 good, and turn them into broilers when the price declines. We 

 should sell them so long as the retail figure did not get below twenty 

 cents a dozen, and begin incubation when that price was reached. 

 We believe that it will pay better to turn eggs into carcasses than 

 to sell at less than twenty cents a dozen. 



Some writers claim that to produce an egg costs one cent; this 

 would make their cost twelve cents a dozen, and anything over that 

 would be clear profit. They will sell eggs so long as they can get 

 eighteen cents, or over that ; at eighteen cents they have fifty per 

 cent, profit, and they are content with that. 



Supposing that a dozen eggs cost twelve cents, and out of that 

 dozen only four chicks were raised up to a marketable weight, and 

 the total cost including price of eggs would be one dollar for those 

 four broilers, and they brought one dollar a pair, the usual price in 

 the New York market, there would be an even dollar profit. Of 

 course in some sections of the country broilers would not bring one 

 dollar a pair; but then generally in such localities feed is' cheaper, 

 which would' about equalize it, and besides we ,have given a very 

 low percentage of hatch and raaring. 



There is money in the broiler business, but it is a branch that 

 must be entered carefully, managed diligently and perfectly under- 

 stood if success is to result. No amateur should start this branch 

 on a large scale. He should begin at the very bottom of the ladder 

 and carefully climb up. There is so much to know : First, how to 



