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or by an nnusiial i>arineiit on a regular attendant. These 

 (listnrbing intlnenees interfere with and \x\)set egg prodne- 

 tion. The rnle shonhl be, keep the fowls in a quiet and con- 

 tented condition. 



The lazy man has no place in the poultry fraternity. 

 " Everlastingly at it " is the key to success in the hen busi- 

 ness. There is always something doing about a poultry 

 jdant that cannot be postponed without the possibility of 

 harm resulting. The birds are always on hand, even if 

 the man is behind time. To anticipate their wants is more 

 ]>rofitable than to let them make them known to you. 



The incubator, brooder, sitting hen and the hen with her 

 chicks, feed supply, feeding, watering, clean dropping 

 boards and litter, fresh sand, clean houses and yards, and 

 above all vermin, are some of the things that demand the 

 time of the poultry keeper. Each item of the list is of so 

 much importance that a neglect of one may mean failure in 

 the end. 



The man who has neither time nor disposition to attend 

 to the wants of his birds at the proper time had better give 

 up the poultry business and go to keeping bees, which are 

 capable of looking out for themselves. A man is inconsist- 

 ent when he sets an example of indolence, and expects his 

 hens to be industrious. The chickens will not pick up 

 worms faster than they are l>rought to the surface by the 

 one with the spade. 



Our dilapidated and deserted poultry houses, which far 

 too often extol the imaginary virtues of medical nostrums, 

 advertise in larger letters the indolence of their owners, and 

 the miserable failure of an attempt at poultry keeping. The 

 thoughtful and industrious poultryman should be quick to 

 adopt an efficient labor-saving device to reduce the cost of 

 the care of the flock, but never under any condition allow a 

 thing to remain undone that is essential to the well-being 

 of his birds. 



As I view in retrospect my decade's experience, I am 

 taught that persistency is a necessary quality of the suc- 

 cessful poultryman. 



The multifarious things to be done about a poultry plant, 



