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few costly errors in management, capital will be used 

 with economy but not with parsimony, and work will 

 be reduced to the minimum by convenient arrangements 

 and labor-saving appliances. 



It takes time to build up a poultry business to 

 successful, profitable condition, but it can be done by 

 the poultryman having the right character, making the 

 correct combination of the foundation factors suit- 

 able location, sufficient capital, systematized labor 

 beginning on a small scale, increasing and enlarging 

 gradually, profiting by experience in the local condi- 

 tions, interested and earnest in pushing progressively 

 onward, preventing leaks and wastes and continually 

 bending mind and muscle to the work. 



ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF POULTBY KEEPING. 



Attractiveness: Poultry culture has peculiar and 

 particular attractions. Few indeed are the persons who 

 do not show interest in the beautiful and useful farm 

 fowls. The breeding, raising and managing of the birds 

 is an occupation enjoyed by people of both sexes' and of 

 almost all .ages. It offers ample t>pportunitiy for the 

 abundant exercise of both brains and muscles by men 

 and women of almost all conditions of life. Oftentimes 

 the boys and girls, especially on the farms, take up the 

 work of caring for the fowls and find it so pleasant and 

 profitable that they are saved from the allurements of 

 the city and become satisfied to follow rural pursuits 

 for life. 



The fowls are the friends alike of the rich and the 

 poor. Many business and professional men take up poul- 

 try culture as a recreation and find profit as well as 

 pleasure in their hobby. 



The birds are interesting because they have life 

 and liveliness, because they respond promptly and gen- 

 erously to good care and management, because they 

 are of beautiful plumage, symmetrical shape, graceful 

 carriage, wonderful activity and great usefulness. 



Easy Beginning: The beginning in poultry keeping 

 can be and ought to be modest and the growth of the 



