POULTRY KEEPING AND KEEPERS 



In starting into the poultry business, the average 

 person gets too enthusiastic and attempts to do too 

 much. That has been the cause of ninety-five per 

 cent, of the failures with poultry, of which there 

 are a large number. The better way is to start on 

 a small scale, and enlarge as experience and capa- 

 bility justify. The idea that almost anybody can 

 make a success with poultry on a large scale has 

 been disproved times without number. In fact, it 

 is next to impossible for a man with no practical 

 experience to go into the poultry business on a more 

 or less extended scale and make a success of it from 

 the start. I know of no place where preparation 

 is a more potent factor toward success than in the 

 poultry business ; in fact, I think I am safe in saying 

 that experience and its application is the key to 

 success with poultry. 



A man would not think of establishing a large 

 mercantile business unless he knew considerable 

 about the trade, but many apparently intelligent 

 people rush pellmell into the poultry business with 

 no idea of its requirements or the returns which 

 may be expected, except what they have gained 

 from the many distorted stories which appear from 

 time to time and which promise " enormous " 

 profits from poultry. The men who are making 

 the greatest successes in the poultry business are 

 those who started in a small way and have gradu- 

 ally grown into the business, enlarging the scope 



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