POULTRY-KEEPING AS A BUSINESS. 99 
pound, and where cheap food in the shape of various 
kinds of offal can be procuied. A want of knowledge 
how to seize upon all the advantages that may offer, or 
to avoid the difficulties presented, will be fatal to suc- 
cess. Upon the character of the ground will depend 
greatly the kind of buildings needed. Buildings suit- 
able for flocks of poultry kept for business and profit, 
where the available ground is of small extent, are shown 
in other chapters. The crops must be raised for food 
or shelter for the chickens, and to encourage the presence 
of insects, upon which the young chicks may feed. 
Sheltered by the rows of corn-stulks, or the stalks of rye 
or potatoes, the chicks are safe from hawks, which will 
not swoop down upon them except in clear ground. 
The coops are kept in or near this plot, being moved 
daily to fresh ground. The chickens are kept busy 
scratching in the loose ground, and there are few 
potatoes raised but what are scratched out and eaten 
by them. This furnishes them with employment and 
with some wholesome food, and it is for this purpose 
alone they are planted. If the owner of such a chicken 
farm is a gardener or florist, and his wife manages the 
poultry part of the business, producing every year two 
or three hundred pairs of chickens for market, besides 
eggs and old fowls, success may be deemed reasonably 
certain. 
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MONEY MADE BY POULTRY KEEPING. 
It seems that the interest in poultry is increasing, and 
that more poultry keepers, instead of being absorbed by 
the insane idea that every one is going to get rich by 
selling fancy eggs at $3 a dozen, or poultry ready to lay 
at $3 to $5 a piece, are giving attention to raising eggs 
in winter, broilers in spring and summer, fat pullets in 
autumn, and capons in winter. In these products theve 
