18 NATURE AND ITS 



can it ever be made to pay to raise chicks in December or 

 January. February, March, April or May are the proper 

 months, and before and after that time the eggs are only 

 50 per cent fertile, and only half of them hatch, and it does 

 not pay. If you want to raise broilers for profit, you should 

 hatch during the first part of February and March and run 

 twenty to forty 300 egg capacity incubators, and have proper 

 brooders, that will keep a steady heat day and night. A hot 

 water pipe system never did nor ever will raise over one-half 

 of the chicks. There are a hundred drawbacks to a hot 

 water pipe system, and theiexpense is so great that it cannot 

 be made to pay, if work and expenses are considered, and 

 the chicks raised. Get a Natural Hen Heat Brooder system. 



Hiring a Man. 



Always try to get a married man. When he has his 

 family on the poultry farm he will be steadier and attend to 

 business day and night. Six months in the year a man must 

 be on duty every hour of the day, Sundays and every 

 other day. No picnics or theaters can be indulged in during 

 hatching time. It does not pay to hire half a dozen men to 

 run a poultry farm. Labor eats up the profits unless you 

 have lots of capital and go in on a large scale. There is more 

 profit in Poultry if you do your own work, and it will pay 

 you 50 per cent on the money invested if close attention is 

 paid. But you can, on the other hand, lose more money in 

 the poultry business than in any other business, if you don't 

 start right. Don't be afraid to get the best incubators and 

 brooders. It pays. If you buy cheap traps you will fail. 

 Follow nature as closely as you can, and with this book you 

 must have success, if you only follow the directions given. 

 As you read this book make notes in your memorandum book 

 and read it often. 



Inbreeding and the Results. 



"Wild turkeys are in bunches of twenty to forty and only 

 one gobbler. If more, the strongest and best fighter kills 



