AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
there is not much heavy work connected with it. 
Also, the work is pleasant or even fascinating to a 
true lover of fowls and nature, and has a tendency 
to cause an invalid to look more on the bright side 
of things. Many a weakened, debilitated person 
has left the noisy, dusty city, with its incessant 
whir of toil and strife, and found restored health 
and strength on a little chicken ranch, where he 
could be out in the open, breathing pure air, amid 
pleasant and interesting surroundings. 
Invalids, like women, had best restrict their 
poultry operations, for otherwise it is likely to do 
them more harm than good. A person with com- 
paratively little strength can look after a small 
flock of a hundred or more hens, but the work 
requires close attention, and if carried farther 
than the number mentioned it is likely to become 
too confining and monotonous for an invalid. A 
person who cannot give his fowls regular atten- 
tion in all kinds of weather must not expect them 
to be very profitable. Invalids can make as much 
money with a small flock of fowls as any other 
class of people, and as the work builds them up 
physically they can develop their poultry business 
until it may ultimately yield them a good living 
income. 
The man who can afford a country home, with 
beautiful surroundings and every comfort, and who 
considers poultry from the dollars-and-cents stand- 
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