AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



of their operations only as fast as their experience 

 and the returns from the business justified. That 

 is the most sensible way of entering the field of 

 poultry culture, and, indeed, the only sure way of 

 avoiding partial or total failure. For the man who 

 attains success with a small flock can, by following 

 up the same general ideas and plans on a more 

 extended scale, branch out and increase his flock 

 and continue in a channel of profit. 



Skill and brains receive as great a reward in the 

 poultry business as in any other, while resourceful- 

 ness is an especially good asset for the poultryman. 

 People who think that the poultry business is a 

 " soft snap," and have some money they want to 

 lose, need only to invest it in poultry. While poul- 

 try keeping is not particularly hard work, it is 

 harder work than many people think. This is 

 true, not because of the manual labor required, 

 but because the attention must be constant and 

 because it is made up largely of details which 

 often become tedious and irksome. 



The amount a man gets out of any business 

 depends very largely upon the amount he puts in 

 The Profits it. There are failures and successes 

 from Poultry in every line of work, and poultry 

 as a Business keeplng Is no exception. There are 

 men in the poultry business to-day who are making 

 twenty-five thousand dollars or more from their 

 poultry business each year. There are other men 



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