AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
in poultry than in any other business. Personally, 
I have made my own plant, the Sando Buff Rock 
Farm, turn out a profit of twenty-five per cent. per 
annum on my investment, but it cost several years 
of time and several hundred dollars in money 
before I was able to arrive at that result. 
By the term “‘ side-line” we mean as an adjunct 
to some other occupation, such as farming, 
Poultry asa fruit growing, gardening, or dairying. 
Side-Line There is no doubt but that poultry can 
be made to pay as great, if not greater, profits when 
handled in this way than in any other. Poultry 
keeping ‘‘nicks in” well with all of those businesses 
just mentioned, and it is no rare thing to find that 
a flock of poultry can be handled in connection 
with one of them with greater profit than would 
result from giving exclusive attention to the other 
business. This is because poultry are gregarious 
and utilize most of the waste products of these 
occupations. 
And again, poultry keeping enables the farmer 
to bring into profitable use the unworkable 
hillsides and the rough rock lands, and the 
uncultivated woods and meadows, besides turn- 
ing waste grains and feeds into a source of 
revenue. Fruit growers find that their trees yield 
more and better fruit when flocks of poultry have 
the run of their orchards, because in this way 
the trees are kept free from the many noxious bugs, 
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