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the most profitable ?—part of poultry culture a woman easily 
overcomes the difficulties and defeated all the men in the district. 
No doubt others know of similar cases, for it seems to me in the 
nature of things that women will make this branch of the industry 
peculiarly their own. 
And how will they fare in the other departments? It has been 
pointed out to me that women will not build poultry-houses so 
well as men can build them. Perhaps not. I am quite prepared 
to concede that where big structures are concerned women on 
the whole may not take to building as readily as men. But is 
house-building rightly a part of poultry-farming? If it is, I know 
a great many of the most successful male poultry-farmers who 
never built a house in their lives and do not intend to. Personally 
I have never done more than assist in building a food-house, and 
I find, with others, that when it comes to dealing with big struc- 
tures it is better in every way to leave the job to skilled men. 
It is enough for the farmer to design the building, or to indicate 
its size and requirements, and I have no doubt that women will 
accomplish this part of the business just as intelligently as the 
average man. Coming into the industry without prejudice and 
preconceived notions, women will adjust their ideas easily to what 
is best adapted to the requirements of the situation. She will 
look at things with a neutral eye and a fresh mind ready to accept 
that which has been proved and ready to try that which is likely 
to be improved. 
WoMEN SUITED FOR POULTRY 
In my opinion poultry-farming is one of the few great industries 
that are made for women, and it is quite likely that in the com- 
paratively near future she will claim it for her own, by the simple 
process of beating her male competitor out of the field. Even if 
she does not entirely dominate the poultry world, she will occupy 
an important place in it. Suited by temperament, attracted by 
reason of its nearness to nature, its complicity with creation, 
woman was made for poultry-farming if it was not made for her. 
There is nothing in connection with it that she cannot do. 
