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Rural School Leaflet 



TO BOYS AND GIRLS WHO WISH TO RAISE POULTRY 



W. G. Krum 



The farm is not only a home but a place of business. Many boys and 

 girls are looking forward to the time when they will have a business of 

 their own. You do not need to wait until school days are over for there 

 are many pleasant ways for boys and girls to earn money and at the same 

 time to learn good business methods. One of these ways is to keep 

 poultry. Would you like to start a poultry plant now ? Is there an unused 

 building, an empty stable, a place in one corner of a building that could 

 be partitioned off for a small pen, or possibly some lumber or large boxes 

 that could be used in building a colony house? Perhaps your father or 



A start in the poultry business 



an older brother would help you to make a place suitable for a small 

 flock of choice hens, and would help you to purchase them. From these 

 you could hatch your chicks in the spring and possibly sell some eggs for 

 hatching purposes at a good price. 



Another good plan would be to buy or borrow a sitting hen or two in 

 March or April and purchase some eggs for hatching from pure-bred stock 

 near home at a reasonable price. The sitting hen should be dusted with 

 plenty of lice powder. She should be kept in a comfortable place where 

 other hens cannot disturb her. Plenty of water, com, and wheat, should 

 be kept near her at all times. When the chicks are hatched, place them 

 with the mother hen in a large coop under the shade of a tree. Have a 

 board floor for the coop and a strong screen door to shut out rats at night. 

 Then with good care, what fun it is to watch them grow ! Of course, you 



