CHAPTER II 



Hozv to Erect and Run a Poultry Plant for Profit 



In these few pages of as few words as possible, I am 

 going to tell you how to erect and run a poultry plant on 

 an entire new system for saving labor and making 

 money. A plant for the farmer, for the business man. 

 A plant that can be run by an amateur, so that one 

 without experience can make it pay a profit from the 

 start. It is conceded, by men who know, that ninety-five 

 out of every one hundred make a failure in the poultry 

 business. The reason for this is because they go en- 

 tirely opposite to nature in caring for them. A hen in her 

 wild state roosts in trees and feeds on seeds of various 

 kinds, worms and insects of every decription, and when 

 you take her and shut her up in a yard you make a 

 prisoner of her. Under such conditions you feed her on 

 mashes of various kinds until you get her sick and out 

 of condition and the natural result is she does not lay 

 more than one-half the eggs she is capable of, and in 

 some cases not an egg. Hens kept under such condi- 

 tions in many cases die of roup or cholera or other ma- 

 lignant diseases. 



Another very important thing we can learn from the 

 hen in her wild state. She always lays her brood of eggs 

 during the springtime, hatches and raises her chicks 

 when the ground gives up a crop of worms and various 

 other insects, and by the time these chicks are fit to 

 wean, dry weather of summer comes on and worms and 

 insects become scarce and the result is the hen lays no 

 more eggs during the year. 



Now, in order to keep hens laying the year round, we 

 m.ust produce springtime conditions the year round. 

 And, right here, I want to say there is nothing that can 

 take the place of insects equal to green cut bone but 

 this is very hard to obtain in most places, and especially 

 on a large scale Therefore, as a rule, we must use 

 beef scraps in place of it. 



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