lessons on irrigation on Weeks Poultry Ranch 



WEEKS PRACTICAL POULTRY SCHOOL, WHERE STUDENTS 

 LEARN TO DO BY DOING 



I have long dreamed of a practical poultry school where those who 

 desired to learn the poultry business could do so by working with 

 poultry. The poultry business can never be learned from books, 

 neither can any other business. If I could have had the opportunity 

 fifteen years ago of taking a course of poultry work on some paying 

 ranch I could have saved myself many years' time and also several 

 dollars. 



I have been repeatedly urged, by parties wishing to become 

 accomplished poultrymen, to start an individual ranch poultry school 

 and give amateurs a chance to get a practical working knowledge of 

 how to make hens lay. I have had constantly at my ranch for the last 

 few years parties helping on the ranch who were intending to go into 

 the poultry business. They have expressed themselves as so well 

 pleased with the practical experience obtained that I have been 

 encouraged to prepare to handle more who wished this experience. 



As this is to be a school of practical experience I wish to make it 

 free and each student will pay for his course of instruction by doing a 

 certain amount of poultry work each day. 



A regular course of work is laid out, each student doing the actual 

 duties in each department. The course will include INCUBATION, 

 BROODING, FEEDING LAYING HENS, GRINDING AND 

 MIXING OF FEEDS, GROWING ALL KINDS OF GREI \ 

 FEED FOR POULTRY, candling and packing eggs for market, 

 dressing poultry for market, delivering poultry to customers, selecting 

 the heavy layers by type, and in fact every detail will be thoroughly 



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