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spective industry will be, "What kind of fowls shall we 

 raise?" Well, my friends, that depends upon what you 

 intend to do, and how much you know about the business, 

 and how much money you wish to invest. If you wish to 

 go into the breeding of fancy stock, and get your profits 

 from the sale of birds straight bred and properly mated, 

 with the requisite number of points in feather and form, 

 or if you wish to dispose of your eggs for hatching pur- 

 poses, then I would say to you, take any of the standard 

 varieties, it makes no difference which, build your houses 

 and yards on the most approved plan, without regard to 

 cost, put into your buildings all the modern appliances 

 that have been thoroughly tested for the artificial raising 

 of poultry, such as incubators and brooders, with the 

 means for heating your buildings and the cooking of food, 

 and if you do not understand the business very thoroughly 

 yourself, then employ some one that does, to assist you in 

 starting your operations, then advertise your business very 

 extensively in several of the poultry journals of the coun- 

 try, (advertising is a trade by itself), then attend all the 

 poultry shows within your reach, exhibit your birds to the 

 best advantage, take the first premiums if you can, and 

 you will make money if you have pluck and patience. 



What will it cost to commence in this way? Well, if 

 you do not wish to raise more than one thousand chickens 

 a year, and have your land, it will not cost more than one 

 thousand dollars, that is, if you are not extravagant in 

 your outlay, but if you get the best of everything, and hire 

 the most of your work done, then you can double the 

 amount before you will begin to realize anything from the 

 sale of eggs or birds. 



But if you are a farmer or mechanic, and wish to raise 

 and keep from twenty to one hundred fowls, deriving your 

 profit from the sale or use of eggs and poultry at the or- 



