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money is invested in the enterprise, and he realizes 

 that upon his personal efforts depends the success 

 of such an undertaking. 



Even some of the larger poultry farms divide 

 their pens in small flocks, claiming that they get 

 better results from this method, and reduce the dan- 

 gers of an epidemic of a contagious disease to a 

 minimum. Breeders of poultry for show purposes 

 invariably adopt this method, as it makes it pos- 

 sible to mate the various breeding pens for certain 

 points which could not be obtained as easily in any 

 other manner. 



