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systems of management. You can learn not a little 

 which will be of great service to you in so doing. And 

 finally do not start in with three or five thousand fowls, 

 but with a few hundred and gradually increase the num- 

 ber as experience in managing them enables you to do 

 so profitably. You will find that you have to make a 

 market for your eggs, and eggs are perishable property 

 and must be sold when fresh. You will have a great 

 deal to learn in caring for your flocks and in looking 

 after the details of your business. If you commence 

 with too many the chances are that, unless you are a 

 very remarkable person, you will make a bad failure. 

 But if you begin with a comparatively small number you 

 can fit yourself for the easy management of a large bus- 

 iness, and find that its details do not wear upon you 

 any more than did the cares of your smaller business. 

 A harness once perfectly fitted is easy to wear, but be- 

 fore the fitting is accomplished it is liable to chafe in 

 spots and produce galls and lameness, and it is so with 

 the harness of your business. Once fitted to you, you 

 will find it easy and pleasant to we.ar and will be sur- 

 prised at the loads which you can draw without discom- 

 fort. 



CONCLUSION. 



We have traversed a pretty wide field. We have 

 surveyed the various purposes which a poultryman may 

 have ; we have selected a breed suitable for the chosen 

 purpose ; we have studied the principles that should gov- 

 ern in the erection of a poultry-house and yard ; we 

 have considered the science of mating fowls for the pro- 

 duction of young that shall be a credit to their progen- 



