PART FIFTH. 



MANAGEMENT, CARE AND FEEDING. 



MANAGEMENT. 



" Nothing succeeds like success " is a true saying, and nothing 

 is of greater importance to the beginner than the knack of good 

 management, coupled with industry. It is well that every poultry- 

 man should know that good management is as much needed in the 

 pursuit of poultry keeping as it is in any other namable business. 

 Do not think, for a moment, that poultry culture is too small or too 

 trifling to not need management; for if you do, and allow your fowls 

 to manage themselves according to their own " sweet will," you 

 will be sure to get small returns from them, while they will be a 

 source of much expense in houses, appurtenances and feed. 



But, you may ask, what is this management you lay so much 

 stress on ? Management has a wide signification, and which we 

 must summarize here. It consists, when one makes up his mind to 

 engage in poultry culture for profit, to slowly, deliberately and 

 cautiously think over his love and adaptation for such business; the 

 size and situation of his place; whether there would be necessity for 

 keeping his fowls constantly confined on account of close neighbors 

 or other causes; the proximity to a city, or good market by railroad, 

 not far away, and the well studied and best liked choice, whether to 

 breed high class thoroughbreds for fancy prices, or graded or cross- 

 bred fowls for market. 



If one prefers thoroughbreds, it is good management to start 

 with a prime, healthy and salable breed, one that he likes and would 

 take much interest in, and give them the proper care needed. If 

 his choice is to cater to the open market, and to supply hotels, res- 



