AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



in poultry than in any other business. Personally, 

 I have made my own plant, the Sando Buff Rock 

 Farm, turn out a profit of twenty-five per cent, per 

 annum on my investment, but it cost several years 

 of time and several hundred dollars in money 

 before I was able to arrive at that result. 



By the term " side-line " we mean as an adjunct 

 to some other occupation, such as farming, 

 Poultry as a fruit growing, gardening, or dairying. 

 Side-Line There is no doubt but that poultry can 

 be made to pay as great, if not greater, profits when 

 handled in this way than in any other. Poultry 

 keeping "nicks in " well with all of those businesses 

 just mentioned, and it is no rare thing to find that 

 a flock of poultry can be handled in connection 

 with one of them with greater profit than would 

 result from giving exclusive attention to the other 

 business. This is because poultry are gregarious 

 and utilize most of the waste products of these 

 occupations. 



And again, poultry keeping enables the farmer 

 to bring into profitable use the unworkable 

 hillsides and the rough rock lands, and the 

 uncultivated woods and meadows, besides turn- 

 ing waste grains and feeds into a source of 

 revenue. Fruit growers find that their trees yield 

 more and better fruit when flocks of poultry have 

 the run of their orchards, because in this way 

 the trees are kept free from the many noxious bugs, 



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