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CHAPTER XXII. 



POINTS OF MANAGEMENT. 



Importance of Details — Keeping an Account — Rotation of Crops — Poultry Manure 

 — The Dust-bath — The Preservation of Eggs— Packing Eggs — Sending E^gs 

 to Market. 



Our last chapter must be given up to those details of man- 

 agement, which we have not been able to touch upon 

 previously, or only in an indirect manner. It must not be 

 assumed, however, that because we have left these to the last, 

 that they are unimportant ; on the contrary, they are most 

 important, and though they may be regarded as only details, 

 yet these details will have a very great influence upon the 

 result, for the neglect of one thing only will, in the course of 

 a year, even if most trivial in itself, become an appreciable 

 matter. This we need not dwell upon, for the same thing 

 is found in all pursuits, and in every department of life. 



We should, at the outset, urge all who go in for poultry 

 keeping to keep a strict account of every item of expenditure 

 and receipt, and to annually make a balance sheet, for there 

 can be no question that in this, as in many other matters, 

 there is far too great laxity in the keeping of accounts. 

 Wealthy persons, who do not care how much a thing costs 

 them, may be permitted to dispense with all such records as 

 we are now recommending, yet even they will find it advanta- 



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