POULTRY KEEPING AND KEEPERS 
ment and started with the best stock obtainable, 
who have intelligently studied the principles of 
breeding and have given much thought to the 
work, have reached a position near the top in a 
comparatively short time. 
There are just as great successes in the line of 
poultry and eggs for market, and success comes in 
much the same way. In starting, ‘learn to crawl 
before you attempt to walk.” Produce goods of a 
superior quality, let the public know it, guarantee 
all eggs to be clean and fresh-laid and all fowls to 
be tender and palatable. Market all goods in an 
attractive form, and it will not be long until you 
will have all the business you can accommodate at a 
good margin above regular market prices. 
There are no short cuts, there is no royal road 
to success in the poultry business; nor is the path- 
way strewn with roses. The author has not for- 
gotten, in the enjoyment of his present success, 
the hard places over which he has passed. He 
has wrung the neck of an old hen that spoiled 
a five-dollar setting of eggs by quitting her job at 
the end of the second week; has had his incubator 
cook two hundred eggs in an hour; a home-made 
brooder catch fire and burn up, together with the 
fifty chicks that were being brooded in it and one 
end of the building in which the brooder was 
located; has seen a fifteen-minute shower drown a 
flock of chicks that cost fifty dollars in money and 
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