138 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



These condtions I have practically created in my poultry 

 system, but I have excelled nature in that I have provided 

 inside protection from all changing weather conditions. 



ELECTRICITY 



By the introduction of electricity into the poultry business, 

 the poultryman will have a far easier time of it than he has 

 ever had in the past. By using electric incubators and elec- 

 tric brooders, also by cleaning your houses by electricity, 

 much of the hard work attached to the business will dis- 

 appear. When you use electricity you are not worrying 

 about your place burning up, and everything is easier and 

 better. 



You begin to think that the poultry business is not such a 

 bad business after all, that you are well repaid for the time 

 and trouble you took to learn it, but be sure you learn it 

 right. When you get up in the morning you have not, pro- 

 vided you use electricity, a hard, dirty job staring you in the 

 face, for, by pressing a button or by turning a crank, your 

 house is instantly cleaned, and when you see how easily this 

 is done you wonder how much of your life you have wasted 

 cleaning dropping-boards and how much money you have 

 lost in time wasted. 



THE AUTOMATIC FEEDER 



One day in watching my hens at the hopper, I observed 

 that some of the hens would stay around the hopper and not 

 let some of the others eat, especially those that were more 

 timid than the others. There seemed to be boss-hens the 

 same as there are boss-roosters in every flock. These boss- 

 hens were the ones that were in the best condition, while the 

 timid hens were as a rule the ones that were out of condi- 



