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LLS5ON5 IN POULTRY KLLPING SECOND SERIES. 



Feeding, Watering and Egg Collecting Cart Used on a Rhode Island Farm. 



become deeply interested in poultry, and decide to venture into it will take bad advice in prefer- 

 ence to good every time. I suppose this is because the bad advice is more in line with their 

 hopes and wishes, and because those who give them good advice will admit that though the 

 chances are very much against the success of a business established on the basis they propose,. 

 there is still a chance that intelligent application and bard work will pull them through. 



The daily care of poultry is neither as easy as some think it, nor as hard as some others make 

 It. It is easy when you know how, and, unless you happen to be one of those who utterly lack 

 natural aptitude for handling live stock, you find it neither a long nor a difficult task to know 

 how. But whoever without previous experience undertakes the care of a large stock of poul- 

 try, soon finds himself In the predicament of every man who undertakes to do or to learn too 

 many different things at once. 



There is a very great difference between doing work well and doing it profitably. Permanent 

 success in any line of work depends, as a rule, upon doing it both well and profitably. The 

 workman must combine thoroughness with a considerable degree of speed, he must have skill 

 and facility. Skill and facility come only as the result of thorough practice so long continued 



Chickens in Com Fields, on Fatm of Knapp & Son, Fabius, N. Y. 



