Management the Key to Poultry Success 



Poultry dealers are learning to make money. Success 

 is measured by the dollar standard in all commercial 

 enterprises. Ducks and chickens are fed and housed, not 

 for their beauty, but for their earning capacity. 



This fact will not be disputed, and it is clearly proven 

 by the developments in the poultry industry. Capital is 

 being invested quite freely and thousands of new plants, 

 large and small, are being put on a business basis, so that 

 they will return reasonable profits. No branch of busi- 

 ness shows greater progress. 



One of the most successful poultry raisers in Illinois 

 has only five acres of land. He keeps from 600 to 2,000 

 chickens, and raises wheat and corn enough for them on 

 about three acres. He buys the refuse from a hotel, pay- 

 ing merely a nominal price. It may not be very profitable 

 to feed chickens exclusively on corn worth 75 cents a 

 bushel, but by providing a variety of cheaper food, the 

 question of feeding becomes less serious. 



In order to get a good supply of eggs in the winter, 

 conditions for the hens must be made as nearly like 

 summer as possible. 



To do this, one thing necessary is plenty of green food 

 for the hens to eat. There are various ways of supplying 

 this. 



If there is a field of winter wheat, rye or alfalfa, where 

 they can help themselves, the green-food problem is 

 solved, when there is no snow on the ground and the 

 weather is warm enough so that the hens can be out. 



During cold and stormy weather, when they are shut 



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