AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
of their operations only as fast as their experience 
and the returns from the business justified. That 
is the most sensible way of entering the field of 
poultry culture, and, indeed, the only sure way of 
avoiding partial or total failure. For the man who 
attains success with a small flock can, by following 
up the same general ideas and plans on a more 
extended scale, branch out and increase his flock 
and continue in a channel of profit. 
Skill and brains receive as great a reward in the 
poultry business as in any other, while resourceful- 
ness is an especially good asset for the poultryman. 
People who think that the poultry business is a 
“soft snap,” and have some money they want to 
lose, need only to invest it in poultry. While poul- 
try keeping is not particularly hard work, it is 
harder work than many people think. This is 
true, not because of the manual labor required, 
but because the attention must be constant and 
because it is made up largely of details which 
often become tedious and irksome. 
The amount a man gets out of any business 
depends very largely upon the amount he puts in 
The Profits it. There are failures and successes 
from Poultry in every line of work, and poultry 
as a Business keeping is no exception. There are 
men in the poultry business to-day who are making 
twenty-five thousand dollars or more from their 
poultry business each year. There are other men 
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