The Poultrymaii's 

 Handbook 



POULTRY RAISING 



Poultry and poultry products add to the wealth of the 

 country each year more than wheat, cotton, or gold. 

 Poultry can be kept successfully in almost every part of 

 the world and is the most profitable kind of live-stock 

 that can be kept. A few fowls can be kept by the inten- 

 sive system in very confined quarters, and enough to 

 provide poultry and eggs for a small family can be raised 

 profitably in a corner of a small town lot; more can be 

 kept on a little additional space. 



An attractive feature of poultry raising is that fowls 

 may be kept for pleasure as well as profit. A fancier 

 may use the best of all the fowls he raises for exhibi- 

 tion, sell a few of equal or almost equal quality to others 

 for the same purpose, sell eggs from pens of mated fowls 

 for hatching, and the culls of the flock will be the best 

 of market poultry. At the same time the flock will fur- 

 nish a large part of the egg and meat diet for a small 

 family. 



Poultry farming can be followed by almost any one 

 who has a small piece of ground and a few dollars to 

 begin with. The business should be begun in a small 

 way and built up gradually. Thousands of men and 

 women are becoming independent each year from a 

 beginning with a little piece of ground on which they 

 raise poultry and vegetables. On a small town lot 

 50 ft.XlOO ft. almost enough vegetables may be raised to 



