No. 4.] POULTRY KEEPING. Gl 



greatest difficulty eradicated. The careless, iinobserving 

 feeder gluts the chicks in the brooder, bringing sickness 

 and death as a result. The person who lacks in being syste- 

 nuitic forgets to note the temperature in the incubator or 

 brooder, and finds later to his sorrow that his eggs have 

 been cooked or frozen, or that the chicks have passed into 

 the great beyond as roasters or fallen into a stupor of hiber- 

 nation, never to awaken. 



Essential as all of these characteristics are to the ordinary 

 jmultrynuin, they are more necessary to the breeder of pure- 

 bred stock. An immediate recognition of a defect of breed- 

 ing may enable one to easily overcome it; but once firmly 

 fixed as a type of the strain, its eradication may require 

 the work of years. The careful l)r(^eder notes the desirable 

 qualities as well as the defects of his matings, and is quick 

 to observe the results in the i:)rogeny. A little thing like 

 the use of a Wyandotte male with a slight bifurcation of 

 the point of the comb, in a breeding pen, in every other re- 

 spect a desirable specimen, may result in the introduction 

 of a defect that in the future will cause many a bird to be 

 disposed of to the marketman which otherwise might have 

 been sold from the show room at a fancy price. Close ob- 

 servation, care and system ])oint the way to success in 

 poultry culture. 



Another qualification of the successful poultry keeper is 

 business ability. 



My observations during the past ten years convince me 

 that many men fail to succeed in the business, owing to a 

 lack of sufficient business ability to enable them to buy and 

 sell to the best advantage. They may have the other quali- 

 ties necessary, but not being proficient in this respect, they 

 fail. Advantageous buying means lessened cost of produc- 

 tion. Good selling means an increased income that may 

 uuike the difference between a loss and a ])rofit. 



A first-class ]u'oduct, marketed in an attractive form, will 

 command a top price; consequently, good selling as fre- 

 quently de])ends upon the honesty of the seller as upon his 

 ability to drive a sharp bargain. With no other farm ])rod- 

 uct is this more true than of eggs and poultry. Strictly 



