Poultry for Profit 



CHAPTER I. 



Making a Beginning 



Poultry keepers, present and prospective, may be 

 divided into five classes : 



1. The man who makes poultry production a 

 business. 



2. The man (it is more often a woman) who 

 keeps chickens in the back yard to supply the family 

 table. 



3. The farmer who keeps poultry as a neces- 

 sary and profitable adjunct to the more important 

 farm operations. 



4. The back-lotter or suburbanite who raises 

 fowls as a side line to add to the family income. 



5. The person (man or woman) who is inter- 

 ested in good poultry and who looks forward to 

 some time becoming a producer. 



If you belong to the first class, this book is not 

 for you. If you belong to one of the other four, and 

 especially to the last class, you may find in it some- 

 thing that will give you a clearer idea of the much 

 misrepresented "chicken business" and of the prin- 

 ciples which underlie successful poultry production. 



DOES POULTRY PAY? 



As well ask if farming or plumbing or the gro- 

 cery business pays. Some people will succeed in any 

 business; some will fail in any. 



"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 

 But in ourselves, that we are underlings." 



