CHAPTER. II 
A LITTLE PERSONAL HISTORY 
As my decision to go to the country was 
forced upon me some personal history will 
follow, including the steps in the building up 
of my little business. From it the reader can 
see why Iam able to give advice to those who 
would take up poultry keeping in a small 
way. It is to and for this class only that 
this book is written. The experienced 
poultryman has been all through practically 
the same experience but in his ads and writ- 
ings he says little of anything but the final 
success. A great majority, however, of the 
novices desiring to commence business would 
have to begin in a small way, working up just 
as I have done. With an honest, unbiased 
history before them of failures and mistakes, 
as well as successes, and the things I have 
learned by profiting by those errors, these 
beginners will be able to avoid some of the 
pitfalls, thereby reaching success by a 
shorter route. 
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