POULTRY-CRAFT. 
CHAPTER lI. 
Poultry Keeping and Poultry Keepers. 
1. Classification.— Business and pleasure are often combined in poultry 
keeping. This, and the complexity of the relations of the different branches 
of the industry, makes a classification of poultry keepers difficult. The out- 
line presented here will, however, give the reader at a glance an idea of the 
relations of the different branches to each other, and of the principal com- 
binations which occur. 
As a business. Market poultry. 
For Profit. } As an employment. High class breeding 
PouLTRY As an investment. and exhibition stock. 
KEEPING. 
For family use. 
for Pleasure. For exhibition. 
For fancy. 
2. Poultry Keeping as a Business.— This is poultry keeping as 
carried on by those who invest in it their capital and give it their time. The 
last mentioned condition distinguishes it from poultry keeping as an invest- 
ment. Only in recent years has poultry keeping taken a place among 
recognized industries. The bulk of the country’s enormous crop of poultry 
products comes from many hundreds of thousands of small producers. The 
number of poultry keepers making a living from the production of eggs and 
poultry is very small compared with the great number of small producers, 
but is rapidly increasing. To make the business successful a man must ‘be an 
expert in the management of fowls, and must have good business judgment, 
with enough business training to make him accurate, methodical and prompt 
in his work and dealings. Many of the successful poultrymen of today were 
not experts when they began. Many learned business methods as their 
establishments grew. One who would make such examples of success the 
excuse for giving his capital, time and labor to an occupation he does not 
understand should remember that, when these men began, the problem of 
profitably keeping fowls in large numbers had not been solved, and successes 
with fowls in small numbers were mostly matters of chance. With rare 
exceptions they began with very limited capital. Lack of capital made it 
