92 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



management very largely whether you will succeed or fail. It 

 is a question of taking a hen as it is and turning it into money, 

 or taking a hodge-podge lot of chickens and turning them into 

 money. It is something that requires the very best kind of 

 management, and unless a person has a thorough liking 

 for it and a will to study all the conditions of success they had 

 better let it alone. There is one thing about poultry that people 

 sometimes forget. There is no day in the year but what you 

 can get returns, provided good management is used, but like 

 anything else, with bad management, only failure can result. 



I have noticed up here that people did not seem to raise fall 

 chicks. I have wondered at that because there is a profit in 

 raising fall chicks. Eggs are cheap in the fall, sometimes 

 being as low as fifteen cents a dozen. At that time you can 

 get eggs from fanciers who are breeding high-grade fowls at 

 about half price, and I think it pays to raise fall chicks. Let 

 me tell you of a little experience of mine when I first got an 

 incubator. It was in September. There was a fair going on 

 in our village, and I heard that they were hatching chickens 

 by machinery. I made up my mind that I would like to see 

 this performance because I thought if anybody else could do 

 that I could. I went to see it, and was greatly interested in 

 the operation. I looked the machine all over, and finally those 

 at the fair with me said, " Wouldn't you like to have one of 

 these brooders and an incubator ?" The result of it was, 

 although I had never seen an incubator before, that we loaded 

 that incubator and the brooder and i6o little chickens that 

 had been hatched out into a wagon and took the whole outfit 

 home. Now i6o chickens was a good many to put into one 

 brooder. I agree that no brooder should ever have as 

 many as that. Those chickens were hatched from thorough- 

 bred stock. That was a great advantage to me, but there was 

 every color and every kind of variety. There was a lot of 

 Brahmas, there were Cochins, and there were Black Minorcas, 



