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let the other fellow do that, but I would have them pay for 

 the fancy birds I raised. That would help me in the end and be 

 much less expensive. The other poultrymen would soon find 

 out where those fine specimens were raised. I should expect 

 as large an income from the twenty-five acres of thorough- 

 bred poultry as from the fifty acres of market poultry. 



Now all these figures seem large, but I honestly believe 

 that they are within the range of possibility. I believe if a 

 young man that has the know-how in him, and has the energy 

 and push to make it possible, he can approximate the figures 

 that I have given. I would not advise every one to engage in 

 fruit and poultry culture, for if I did, and my advice was fol- 

 lowed, I should expect in a few years to find a good many 

 abandoned poultry plants scattered over the country. Our 

 talents are not all the same. It is a great thing for a young 

 man to find his niche in life ; to find the place he can best fill. 

 We find many misfits all about us. The different professions 

 are crowded with those who are complete failures. They might 

 possibly have met with success had they remained on the old 

 farm. And then again there are those who have spent their 

 whole lives on the old farm and have not amounted to any- 

 thing. They have barely made a living. It is possible had 

 they followed the avocation of their choice, they might have 

 achieved success. I believe largely in hobbies. I believe that 

 every one should have some high ideal. We find that most 

 of those whose names are written in the halls of fame are men 

 and women of one idea; they have had one supreme purpose 

 in life, and have bent their whole energies and strength for its 

 accomplishment. Life is too short for the average man to be- 

 come expert in a dozen different lines of work. It is better to 

 be moderately successful in one thing than to fail in a dozen. 

 For those, however, whose tastes incline them to fruit and 

 poultry culture, we believe there is nothing in the line of agri- 

 cultural pursuits that begins to offer the inducements, both in 

 pleasure and profit, that the raising of poultry and poultry 

 products, according to modern methods, offers. 



I think my time is nearly up. 



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