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the one that, in a majority of cases, will give the greater 

 profit, though it may not give the best obtainable quality 

 in individuals. 



Is dry feeding, then, to be recommended as the best 

 system for all beginners ? Not at all. A good proportion 

 — though not the majority — of beginners will get as good 

 or better results from the start by other methods. The 

 best way for the beginner is to adopt the method he thinks 

 he would prefer, or that most convenient to use, and follow 

 it until he has a good reason for modifying or changing it. 

 No one can tell in advance which system will suit him 

 best, and while the dry feed method is generally safer for 

 novices because it operates as a check on some of the other 

 errors they are most likely to fall into, in case they escape 

 these other errors the features of the dry feed system which 

 made it good under other circumstances may be the very 

 ones that will make it unsuitable for them. The feeding 

 system must fit the other parts of one's poultry keeping, 

 and a poultry keeper would be very foolish who would try 

 to make his methods conform to any well defined system 

 after it became apparent to him that in his case modifica- 

 tion of either system, or a combination of the two, would 

 'work to better advantage. We must not lose sight of the 

 fact that our division of feeding methods into two general 

 systems is an arbitrary distinction which has no practical 

 use beyond what can be done by thus dividing the subject 

 when discussing it to make the whole question of feeding 

 clearer to the beginners who too generally assume that 

 there is one best method, and all others are either bad or 

 inferior to it. 



40. What Is Dry Feeding? — There are various 

 methods of dry feeding, just as there are various methods 



