8+ EGGS AND POULTRY 
his reading use the knowledge the following 
year. 
The plan contemplated is a short cut toa 
large flock in a short time, giving the owner 
time to get his experience, however, before 
he has much money invested. It is not a 
short cut by new fangled methods, but the 
one I selected after experimenting and ap- 
proved by the majority of poultrymen. After 
having tried other less satisfactory methods, 
I settled on this. By it the novice can easily 
do in two years what has taken me three 
years to accomplish. You may very easily 
exceed all my estimates, for my flock has 
been a very ordinary one, but it has had good 
feed and attention. 
Various ways have been noted through- 
out the book of increasing profits over mine. 
The whole object of this book has been, not 
to try to induce you to embark in the busi- 
ness, but to put everything in the business, 
as far as has come to my mind, in as clear a 
light as possible and in a conservative way, 
leaving it for you to judge whether or not 
you could make a living from chickens, 
