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that the best results are obtaiued by mateiiig a young male with older 

 females and vice versa. 



Too little attention is paid b}' some to the feeding of the fowls. 

 Many are very irregular in caring for their stock, giving too mucli at 

 one time and not enough at another time. Fowls that have a good 

 range do not need nearly as much as those inclosed, but a good many 

 feed too much to cooped fowls. Watch them when" you feed and 

 give only what they will take care of directly, for it is not a good plan 

 to keep food before them all the time, especially is it so with Asiatics, 

 Brahmas, Cochins, etc. It is a good plan to feed cooped fowls in 

 such a manner, that they will have to scratch for their living, thus 

 keeping them in a good healthy condition. 



I have been asked a great many times if poultry raising pays. 

 My experience has been that it does. One year 1 kept a flock of 

 thirty hens and in that time netted $35, all the attention that they 

 received being given in odd moments. In proof also that it does 

 pay, look at the many large poultry farms. Not everybody succeeds 

 in this business, but in what business does every one succeed. But 

 when managed in a thorough business manner and using the same 

 rules that bring success in any undertaking, it is a paying business. 

 It can also be a source of profit to many who can use spare moments 

 in this work to their advantage, and it will also be found a source of 

 pleasure. 



M. B. Kingman, Chairman of Committee. 



