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If your method of feeding gives good results don't change it 

 because you happen to read of someone else who feeds differently. 



The fool knows it all to begin with. The wise man learns by 

 his experience. The wisest man learns by his experience and the 

 experience of others. 



Read this book over time and again until you have thoroughly 

 assimilated it. The closer you follow its teachings the more dol- 

 lars you will make. 



To get rid of the neighbor's cat, explode a torpedo under her 

 tail whenever she comes around. This will scare the cat, but do 

 her no permanent harm. The neighbor will appreciate the joke, 

 and you will get rid of the cat and keep your neighbor's good will 

 at the same time. 



After a hen has- laid an egg she cackles. Go and do thou 

 likewise ! If your birds have taken a prize at the county fair, 

 cackle. If they have made a big egg record, cackle. If you have 

 some fine stock to sell, cackle. In these days publicity and pros- 

 perity go together. 



Does it pay to caponize? About this, as about everything 

 else, there is a difference of opinion. It takes so long to bring a 

 capon to maturity that the gain in size is offset by the extra cost 

 for food, to say nothing of the care. Unless you have a special 

 market, better not bother with capons. 



If you are in the business for eggs, and eggs alone, the sooner 

 you get rid of your surplus "crowers" the better. I know a man 

 who disposes of his cockerels, as soon as he can distinguish them 

 from the pullets, for 10 cents each. He claims he is better off to 

 sell them for this sum than to keep them. 



Some think the shape of the egg determines the sex of the 

 chick that is to be hatched. This is a mistake. The shape of the 

 egg has no effect upon the sex of the germ it contains. A more 

 plausible theory is that the shape of the egg will influence the 

 shape of the chick that begins its life in it, a long egg giving a 

 long, rangey chick, and a short, round egg a more blocky chick. 

 This is worth investigating. 



Don't be in too much of a hurry to have your chicks begin to 

 roost. Put the roost in their house one foot from the floor and let 

 them find out what it is there for themselves. Some adventurous 

 chick will discover it after a while and get upon it; others will 

 follow, and after a few weeks the whole flock will be roosting at 

 night. Should there be any laggards drive them about with the 



