hen? There is a way to do it, and why not learn this fine art of living 

 the simple life, when it brings all that is worth while. Of course it takes 

 time and study to systematize one acre into a profitable business the 

 same as any other business. Too many attempt it without any prep- 

 aration at all. 



Many start out with an end in view and get mixed up with the 

 details and lose sight of the end. When I first started out in the 

 poultry business fifteen years ago, I thought I must work sixteen hours 

 per day in order to make it go. No doubt this helped, and by sheer 

 force my business was established. Today I can turn off more work in 

 eight hours than I could ten years ago in sixteen. System and order 

 and machinery gets results with more satisfaction and less wear. Too 

 tired to enjoy, we often hear the rancher say. Let us stop, get a good 

 perspective of our ranch, and sit down and think out the daily details 

 and cut out the things then and there that are lost motion. Move 

 directly, efficiently, and thoroughly. 



It does not pay to wear yourself out physically so that you drive 

 yourself and are too tired to think. Each poultry man needs to set 

 apart two hours at least each day for study and thinking upon the 

 problems of his ranch. By concentration, two hours each day upon the 

 business of the ranch, things will assume order and steps be saved. 

 When you are tired, rest; then work twice as fast and with more 

 pleasure. By moving fast and with decision, one will assume the rou- 

 tine work of the ranch with much more ease and will accomplish in 

 one hour what it takes undirected two hours to accomplish. Go at your 

 task fresh and rested and make a record for speed and skill and the 

 task will be amusing and entertaining, instead of wearing. It is a fine 

 art to learn how to work hard and effectively and rest well. Keep up 

 your physical buoyancy if you would have the keenest joy on a poultry 

 ranch. Physical buoyancy is killed by dragging, plugging, grinding all 

 day when the same work could be done in half the time with alertness 

 and decision. If a man on a poultry ranch would try to move just 

 twice as fast as he usually does and take the half of the time thus saved 

 for studying and planning how to cut short the details, he will catch 

 up with himself and also catch up with his work. The work on a poul- 

 try ranch is so varied that it need not pall. Each day and each season 

 brings its new tasks that add change to the daily routine. To go from 

 one piece of work to another with the least lost motion and to keep 

 several pieces of work going in their due season requires thought and 

 precision and affords mental drill as well as healthy exercise. 



Can you imagine a line of work more interesting than to take a line 

 of birds and breed them year after year for vigor and egg production? 



These two things you must have vigor and egg production if 

 you get satisfaction and pleasure from keeping hens. You cannot have 

 egg production without vigor, but you may have vigor without egg 

 production, and the problem is to keep both vigor and egg production. 



The inventor has been pictured as the happiest of mortals because 

 almost oblivious of self. The poultry man has many problems that can 

 engross a lifetime in experimenting, making poultry raising one of the 

 most scientific as well as absorbing occupations that can be found. 



One of our keenest pleasures is to select a pen of egg type hens and 

 record them. We look forward to some wonderful things in egg pro- 



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