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be protected. The first approach of disease should be noted 

 by watching for abnormal conditions. If disease appears, sick 

 fowls should be isolated promptly and dead fowls, as well as 

 other dead animals on the premises, should be cremated with 

 dispatch. 



8. Store eggs for fall and winter consumption. When 

 prices are not remunerative, why should the poultry farmer 

 sacrifice? He can store for better prices as well as the grain 

 farmer. His product will be of better quality than eggs which 

 go through the cold storage plants, because packed when 

 perfectly fresh. 



9. Study the problem of marketing. Culling for market 

 should begin early when prices are good. A broiler will some- 

 times command a better price than the same fowl held over 

 till the following spring. To market breeding stock and eggs 

 successfully requires discreet advertising. 



10. Eliminate waste and all unnecessary expenses. This 

 program may appear visionary because so few attain to its 

 requirements. The ideal is important in any enterprise, for 

 it is only by striving for an ideal that we reach any degree of 

 excellence. To show how in a measure this program may be 

 worked out in practice is our aim in future chapters of this 

 book. 



Don't Neglect the Poultry 



Opportunity is at the door of every enterprise. Welcomed 

 and seized she leads into fields of promise and reward ; 

 neglected her invitations and counsels are in vain. Neglect 

 spells loss. A beautiful damsel was encouraged by a good 

 genius to pass through a cornfield once, and only once. She 

 was urged to pluck an ear, large and beautiful, for according 

 to its size and beauty would be its value to her. She passed 

 many ears large, ripe and beautiful, but neglected to pluck, 

 hoping to find one yet more beautiful. As the day declined she 

 reached a portion of the field where the stalks were thin and 

 barren. And, at last, as the evening closed upon her she found 

 herself at the end of the field without having plucked an ear of 

 any kind. Opportunity had flown and with it the promised 

 reward. 



Neglect is the cause of nearly all our disappointments in 

 poultry raising; it is responsible for nearly all the leaks and 



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