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lose your job it will require a "pull" to obtain another, and 

 as you have no "pull" you have a poor chance. You and 

 your wife are growing old and you decide to make a last 

 stand. You realize your condition and after reading the 

 poultry books, and seeing the real estate agent, you buy a 

 "little home" on the installment plan, a flock of hens, an 

 incubator, some chick-food, and somebody's egg-food. You 

 put your hens in "fresh-air' 7 houses, and then you begin to 

 work and you do this job and that and at night you are all 

 worn out. You would not mind this if your hens would only 

 lay, but for some reason that you do not understand your 

 hens do not lay, your chicks all die, a large number of hens 

 get the roup and die (although, like Mary Smith, you dipped 

 their heads in coal oil). Next, you rush off and get roup 

 cures to cure roup, egg powders and "tonic" to get the eggs 

 started and "tone up the hens,'' but your hens get worse. 

 You have been feeding your hens the best food on earth, but 

 still no eggs come. You do not realize that it takes more 

 to make hens lay than just buying egg-food and feeding it 

 to them. You can feed egg-foods that cost fancy prices and 

 not get eggs, for an inexperienced person can easily unbalance 

 a properly balanced ration by a wrong system of feeding. 



POULTRY FOODS 



You must have experience, you must understand how to 

 make your hens lay, and you should know how to mix your 

 own feed and how the different effects which different grains, 

 etc., have upon the fowls, even though you desire to feed 

 prepared foods to your flock. There are good and indifferent 

 poultry foods manufactured. Some of these are made by 

 practical poultrymen with years of experience and are worthy 

 of a fair trial. Some may be far better than those I shall 



