POULTRY KEEPING AND KEEPERS 
In starting into the poultry business, the average 
person gets too enthusiastic and attempts to do too 
much. That has been the cause of ninety-five per 
cent. of the failures with poultry, of which there 
are a large number. The better way is to start on 
a small scale, and enlarge as experience and capa- 
bility justify. The idea that almost anybody can 
make a success with poultry on a large scale has 
been disproved times without number. In fact, it 
is next to impossible for a man with no practical 
experience to go into the poultry business on a more 
or less extended scale and make a success of it from 
the start. I know of no place where preparation 
is a more potent factor toward success than in the 
poultry business; in fact, I think I am safe in saying 
that experience and its application is the key to 
success with poultry. 
A man would not think of establishing a large 
mercantile business unless he knew considerable 
about the trade, but many apparently intelligent 
people rush pellmell into the poultry business with 
no idea of its requirements or the returns which 
may be expected, except what they have gained 
from the many distorted stories which appear from 
time to time and which promise ‘‘ enormous” 
profits from poultry. The men who are making 
the greatest successes in the poultry business are 
those who started in a small way and have gradu- 
ally grown into the business, enlarging the scope 
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