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small flocks is quite different from feeding on a large scale 

 and in big flocks. If your feed is right, it is just as easy to 

 handle poultry on a large scale, but if your feed is not right 

 you will have more hens out of condition and the hens out 

 of condition should be separated from the others. When you 

 separate the non-layers and feed them a little differently 

 from the layers you can handle them in large flocks just as 

 well as you can in small ones. The larger the flocks and the 

 larger your plant, the more experience you need. If you go 

 into the business, go in on a small scale, experiment carefully 

 and have some other source of income so that you do not 

 have to depend on your poultry for a living. Go slowly, be 

 careful, and do not let the fever overcome your caution. 



The way to experiment is given elsewhere in this book. 

 Remember that you are not going to learn in a day or a 

 month what it has taken others years to learn; that you 

 cannot get the best results at first, or if you do you will be 

 the loser thereby because if everything goes along smoothly 

 you will have no opportunity to learn what to do when things 

 go wrong. What you want to know is why the machine broke 

 down, how to fix it, and how to prevent it from breaking 

 down the next time. That is the experience you want, so 

 that you may always be prepared. 



HOW TO DESTEOT LICE 



One of the first things that people ask me is what do I do 

 for lice, and may I say that a certain amount of lice is good 

 for a hen. The treatment of lice is the simplest part of the 

 poultry business. By painting the roots with a good lice- 

 killer, especially the under sides of them and every place 

 where mites are likely to live, I have avoided all trouble from 

 mites, and by mixing a good lice-killer or a little crude car- 



