8 Farm Poultry 



physically, or who do not desire, to perform 

 heavy manual labor or any work that requires 

 the outlay of considerable effort and strength. 



Those who desire to work more or less out of 

 doors, and who are willing to attend regularly to 

 details, may find congenial employment and may 

 undertake to perform the necessary operations of 

 poultry-keeping without the feeling that they are 

 starting in a business for which they are not 

 fitted. It will frequently be noticed that success 

 in business is attained by those who for various 

 reasons are more or less unfitted for the work 

 which they have undertaken, and who conse- 

 quently achieve success through great persever- 

 ance alone and in the face of greater difficulties 

 than their competitors experience. 



Many people of means and refined tastes have 

 profitably taken up the study and occupation of 

 poultry-keeping as a means of affording health- 

 ful out-of-door exercise, in order to regain failing 

 health or to afford a change and rest from pro- 

 fessional activity. Many women have become 

 expert breeders, or producers of various poultry 

 products and are recognized as authorities in their 

 respective lines of work. There is no branch of 

 animal industry that offers so many inducements 

 to women as some of the various branches of 

 poultry -keeping, particularly if they desire to 

 experiment in the production of new forms. 



