CHAPTER XII 

 Methods of Management 



Study and practice should travel together in the 

 poultry business. As the consequence of earnest study- 

 ing and accompanying experience in keeping fowls, 

 there should be constant progress in poultry culture. 



Actual personal care of the fowls gives the thinking 

 poultryman a clear insight as to the application of 

 the principles which he has studied. It clinches the 

 facts which he has learned and makes them a part 

 of his experience. 



The poultryman who faithfully studies his subject 

 and starts on a small scale in the keeping of poultry, 

 solving one by one the problems of breeding, feeding, 

 incubating, brooding, rearing, finishing and marketing 

 according to his own circumstances and ascertaining 

 what local conditions favor or obstruct his progress, is 

 prepared to push forward intelligently and successfully 

 in his chosen calling. 



While learning to overcome the obstacles and to 

 utilize the advantages peculiar to his environment, he 

 finds out what lines of poultry keeping are most pro- 

 fitable and best suited to his purpose amidst his par- 

 ticular surroundings. He is then in a position to de- 

 velop his business along those lines strongly and wisely. 



There is supreme satisfaction in watching a poultry 

 business grow gradually, under one's guidance, from a 

 small beginning to something worth while. This is 

 accomplished by good management. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



Management is defined as the manner of treating, 



