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and to delay long enough to learn the business 

 thoroughly before much is invested. Mistakes will 

 certainly be made and difficult problems will pre- 

 sent themselves for solution before success can be 

 attained in any extended way. Many have made 

 the experiment of investing considerable money 

 and labor before the business was even fairly well 

 understood, and failure, or discouragement which 

 often amounts to the same thing has been the 

 consequent result. 



While failures due solely to inexperience are 

 in evidence most of the time, yet new recruits 

 are continually rushing forward to repeat the dis- 

 aster. This is without doubt due largely to the 

 desire on the part of many to accumulate money 

 rapidly and before they have time to pass through 

 the important apprenticeship of learning the busi- 

 ness. Undoubtedly many are tempted to go into 

 the poultry business on a somewhat extensive 

 scale because a few fowls are kept on many farms 

 seemingly with profit, and yet without much care. 

 The small flocks that have the run of the farm 

 may thrive with little care, but large colonies demand 

 close attention from one who has passed the stage 

 of a novice, if the greatest success is to be attained. 



Many failures in the poultry business have 

 resulted from a neglect of some or many of the little 

 details so necessary to success. 



Individuals have succeeded admirably even 



