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in various numbers, huddled up in some corner trying to keep each 

 other warm, which means white diarrhfjea in a few days. In this last 

 instance it may happen that only a few get chilled, and they may be 

 the only ones to have it; then, if the party has used some concoction 

 as a remedy, he may think that the remedy was what cured the rest of 

 the lot, when as a matter of fact they never had it at all. So the best 

 remedy is to give them a chance to go to any temperature they want, 

 and so arranged that the little chicks right out of the incubator can- 

 not help finding it, — in other words "fool proof." 



The question is often asked, " Is there a chance for me to get a living 

 in this artificial chicken business?" The reply is, "There certainly is," 

 for the right party ; and there are very few if any other kinds of busi- 

 ness that offer as large returns for the amount of capital invested. 

 But when the question is asked, " Can / make a living at it? " it is quite 

 another thing, for no one can tell another whether he can make a 

 success if he goes into any kind of business, — chickens, dairying, 

 sheep raising, manufacturing shoes, stockings or watches, because so 

 much depends on the person himself. If one has but little capital, he 

 must work, and work hard, until he gets everything to do with, then 

 it will go along very easily; but if one has money enough to hire all the 

 hard work done, of course it is just so much easier. 



There is one thing that would be of inestimable value and help to 

 the poultrymen of this State, and that is, to have a Massachusetts 

 Poultry Association, one such as every one who is interested in any 

 branch of the business, and even their friends, would be glad to join, 

 that we might work together for the common good of the whole 

 poultry fraternity. For an idea of the many things that might be ac- 

 complished, the reader is referred to the Connecticut and Rhode Island 

 Poultry Associations, which have done and are doing a great deal for 

 this important industry in those States. With a good, strong organi- 

 zation of this kind, we could go before the Legislature and expect 

 to accomplish any reasonable object that we might desire; in fact, we 

 could force the recognition that an industry of such proportions as 

 this rightly deserves. 



