. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 89 sell for 15 to 35 cents a pound, live weight. A good breeding cockerel will sell jFrom $5 to $50, but of course the $50 birds are few and far between, and one usually has to breed for special points to get that price. Now the egg orders should be looked for, and a small "ad" in a good poultry magazine and a local newspaper will attend to that matter. You can probably run many hatches the second year, as there is great demand for newly hatched chicks, and many people raise very few of the number hatched, sellinig mo
. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 89 sell for 15 to 35 cents a pound, live weight. A good breeding cockerel will sell jFrom $5 to $50, but of course the $50 birds are few and far between, and one usually has to breed for special points to get that price. Now the egg orders should be looked for, and a small "ad" in a good poultry magazine and a local newspaper will attend to that matter. You can probably run many hatches the second year, as there is great demand for newly hatched chicks, and many people raise very few of the number hatched, sellinig most of them, and make a very good thing of the baby chicks. We know of one woman who hatched 1800, saved 700 for her next year's breed- ing yards, and sold iioo at good Of course a back- yard chicken plant is but an introduction to acreage property and another prosperous chicken Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burbridge, Mabelle A. (Mabelle Antoinette), b. 1872. [Los Angeles? Cal. ]
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