There is always a splendid opportunity to sell hatching eggs in the spring of the year, if one has had the foresight to get started in purebred 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 mature birds up into small pens of about ten females 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 revenue from selling adult birds for breeding purposes. If your flock is composed of good individuals, you should experience little difficulty 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 eggs that you have to sell. Probably a cheaper way of advertising, if you really have good birds, is to show a pen, consisting of four females and one male, at some of the neighboring poultry shows. If you can succeed in winning a premium, this will be a splendid factor in your efforts in selling breeding stock. It is usually permissible to place a little card on the outside of your pen at the poultry show, giving your name and address, and stating that you have breeding stock for sale, or that you are now taking orders for hatching eggs in the spring. CHAPTER XVII. IN CONCLUSION I have tried to explain in this little booklet that there is a splendid opportunity for one to engage in the poultry industry, whether it be on a large scale, or a small scale. There is considerable pleasure as well as profit in this work, for the one that is posted on a few of the essential principles, as has been laid down in this short treatise. It will probably be well to repeat a few facts that should be remembered first, however, before closing. Do not expect to make a great amount of money from your poultry the first year. Getting started right in the poultry business will cost something, so for the first year, if you just break even you will do well. Plan to learn as you go along. Every poultry raiser should take at least one poultry journal, to keep posted on the latest facts concerning the business. These journals always carry a great amount of advertising matter in regard to stock for breeding and in regard to poultry house equipment, etc. Many useful ideas can be secured from pretty near every issue of a standard paper.