18 PROGRESSIVE POULTRY CULTURE 



business should be gradual. This signifies small capital 

 to start with and increase of investment according to 

 experience. A small flock and little land will enable 

 one to commence in the industry. 



Prompt Returns: The income from the investment 

 begins to come quickly, because eggs and chickens are 

 soon produced and are readily sold at any time for 

 cash. 



The Products: Live fowls, dressed poultry, eggs 

 and feathers are in constant and increasing demand. 

 Wild fowls and other game are vanishing, the prices 

 of meats of all kinds are advancing and new uses are 

 developing in the arts for some poultry products. Dress- 

 ed fowls and eggs are concentrated and perishable pro- 

 ducts which are valuable enough to stand considerable 

 expense for prompt transportation in fresh condition to 

 cash customers. 



Enrichment of Land: The droppings of the fowls 

 are a rich fertilizer and especially valuable for use in 

 the garden or orchard, for the lawn or grass lands and 

 for forage crops and foliage plants. 



Utilizing Wastes: Many of the wastes and by- 

 products of the household and farm are ultilized by the 

 fowls and changed into valuable poultry products. 



Healthfulness: Poultry keeping is a decidedly 

 healthful occupation. So much so in fact that it is fre- 

 quently taken up by persons not in the best of health 

 and sometimes with very beneficial results. 



Disadvantages: Sometimes the poultry occupation 

 demands more hard work and sacrifice than is agree- 

 able. Epidemic diseases will occasionally cause de- 

 struction of the living creatures in spite of every pre- 

 caution. 



IMPORTANCE OF THE CALLING. 



Statistical Studies: Few people realize the extent 

 of the poultry business in the world. It is well for 

 the poultryman to consider some of the evidences of the 

 importance of his calling. 



