POULTRY BREEDING. 



Considerations on the Necessary Appliances to 

 Successful Poultry Breeding. • 



A universal notion prevails that poultry cannot pos- 

 sibly be bred with profit except on farms, and then only 

 when bred in large quantities. This is a most mis- 

 taken idea, as a few heads of poultry will yield pro- 

 portionately as much profit as any larger numbers. For 

 instance, whereas in large establishments heavy expenses 

 are incurred for buildings, rent, machinery, and labor, 

 these charges do not occur with the amateur breeder 

 who attends on his own poultry personally. It is true 

 that large establishments can buy their cereals cheaper, 

 and grow their own vegetables ; but this, again, is com- 

 pensated with the amateur who obtains a better price 

 for his eggs and poultry, even if used for his ow^n con- 

 sumption, than the large breeder, who is obliged to sell 

 his produce through a salesman at wholesale prices. 



However, to obtain such satisfactory results, it is abso- 

 lutely necessary to observe certain sanitary laws in the 

 construction of the poultry home, and to see that the 



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