Show A GOOD TIME TO BEGOT February islt hand again and the I poultry business is looking up The trade in fine fowls has been fair 1 winter and now the call for purebred eggs for hatching has begun I In the latter branch of the fine poultry industry we sea the best chance for the beginner There are several reasons why it is the best and cheapest for any one desiring to begin purebred poultry breeding breed-ing to buy fine eggs instead of fowls In i the first place the express charge is i only onehalf as much on eggs as 1 is on fowls of equal weight This Is a big Item for the buyer when the stock corned from a distance by express I In the second place eggs from the I most choice fowls may be had at a reasonable prIcesay thirteen eggs for the price of one fowl in the yards where the eggs come from If a fancier values his fowls at is each he will likely put the price of their eggs at 5 a setting Thirteen errs from birds of that ClaSS would likely give the buyer with ordinary ordin-ary success half a dozen chickens each one of which would average at least onehalf the value of the original cost of the esss while more than likely there will be one or two chickens in the lot which are alone worth the price of the eggs Most any way we figure it the buyer of fine eggs stands to make several sev-eral hundred per cent on his Investment Invest-ment It follows however that he must keep I business eye open and advertise adver-tise his surplus Birds so as to get for them what they 1irds worth He must also advertise his surplus eggs for hatching the following season Five dollars is about the top price however for a setting of fine eggs and it is more C than nine people out of ten will pay I Is also more than nine breeders out of ten will ask for their eggs Two dollars a setting 5s a good egg price and a dollar and a half or a ffr and a quarter is mora in keeping with the present times The beginner who buys a setting of eggs from good purebred stock at a I dollar and a half a setting and starts in early In the season is quite sure to make a good investment of it Take the Brown Leghorus for instance There is money for all In this noble breed Anyone Any-one that lets as many as four pullets and a cockerel from a setting of Brown Leghorn eggs at S15 has made a good thing of i Because the Leghorn pullets pul-lets are worth twice as much as a common com-mon chicken as a layer of eggs for market mar-ket whereas in the fanciers market such a pullet Is rated all the way from 1 to 5 in valu Two dollars is a very common price and is readily paid for such fowls Then theres the Plymouth Rocks another very popular breed I pays to buy eggs of this breed because there Is a stiff demand for both the fowls and i their eggs This breed ranks first as I market poultry and It has secured such a strong hold on the popular esteem that nothing can shake it off There aro other breeds that are very meritorious in point of value for practical prac-tical purposes and a great many other breeds that are strictly fancy and aff ard pleasure to anyone breeding them for pastime Eggs for hatching when fresh and properly packed may be sninped a very great distance and yet hatch well We have bought eggs and transported them thirteen hundred miles and then hatched hatch-ed ten out of thirteen of them ltch The person who wants to buy from a distance should buy eggs Instead of fowl a it is much the cheapest and equally satisfactory when dealing with reliable Field and breeders Fireside H B Goon in Farm |