142 POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



Exclusive Poultry-Keeping. This may be defined as 

 that type or kind of poultry-keeping that is carried on by 

 the poultry-keeper as an exclusive business in itself and 

 as an exclusive means of support and profit. All the feed 

 for the fowls is purchased. There are sections in the 

 United States where this type of poultry -keeping has been 

 carried on successfully for years. It is true, however, that 



1,000 PULLETS IN A PRUNE ORCHARD 

 Owners, Rev. M. C. Wire & Son, Newberg, Oregon. 



a great many failures have resulted. This branch or type 

 of poultry-keeping has been more or less uncertain in the 

 past but there is not now so much excuse for failure because 

 the available information on the subject is more reliable 

 than formerly. Exclusive poultry-keeping must not be 

 gone into by the novice without experience or he is almost 

 certain to fail. 



There are only certain districts or locations where poul- 

 try-keeping should be made a special or exclusive business. 



