CHAPTER I. 

 How 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 saviAg labor and 

 making money. A plant for the farmer, for the busi- 

 ness 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 entirely 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 description, 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 conditions in many 

 cases die of Roup or Cholera or other malignant 

 diseases. 



Another very important thing we can learn from 

 the hen in her wild state. She always lays her brood 

 of eggs during the Spring time ; 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 around, 

 we must, produce Springtime conditions the year 

 around. And right here I want to say there is noth- 

 ing 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. 



