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bred poultry. There is always a large demand 
for hatching eggs and most hatcheries can not 
fill their orders. For the one engaged in the 
poultry business, even on a small scale, this 
offers a splendid opportunity, especially when 
eggs are selling cheap on the market, as they 
do in the spring of the year, to divide the ma¬ 
ture birds up into small pens of about ten fe¬ 
males to one good male bird, and sell these 
eggs at anywhere from $1.50 a setting to as 
much as you can get. The higher the quality 
of the stock, the more money one can demand 
for such hatching eggs. 
Then there is another good source of rev¬ 
enue from selling adult birds for breeding pur¬ 
poses. If your flock is composed of good in¬ 
dividuals, you should experience little diffi¬ 
culty in selling your surplus birds from $5 up. 
A little well planned advertising is often a 
good thing to do, to let people know what you 
have got for sale. Often an advertisement in 
the local paper, or a rural weekly will bring 
in many inquiries in regard to the birds or 
t 
eggs that you have to sell. 
Probably a cheaper way of advertising, if you 
