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yond me to keep a small garden in beautiful 

 order and raise a lot of chickens. 



The poultry question has been so often gone 

 over, and so many columns have been written 

 about the vast sums of money to be made by 

 raising poultry, by sending spring chickens to 

 market, or by selling eggs when they are dear, 

 that it is scarcely worth while to say more than 

 a word about my chickens here. I have in- 

 variably found that the schemes of my friends 

 who went into poultry-raising as a business, 

 and several of them have done so, turned out 

 badly, partly because they expected to make 

 money out of the business instead of a mere 

 living, and partly because the keeping of one 

 thousand chickens seems to be a dangerous 

 proceeding to the chickens. In my own case 

 I have never attempted to have more than fifty 

 chickens at a time. With an insignificant ex- 

 penditure this flock has proved to be quite 

 sufficient. Again this is a case where simple 

 care and system are necessary. In the poultry- 

 yard as well as in the garden beautiful order 

 and precision in work pay. In our part of the 

 country ducks have also proved to be one of 



