SUCCESS WITH HENS 



CHAPTER I 



PROFIT AND PLEASURE WITH POULTRY 



Poultry raising offers pleasure, fascination, and 

 profits to everybody. Any one having any kind of 

 a lot should keep poultry. 



If the figures were at hand to show the number 

 of families that keep a few hens to furnish eggs 

 and poultry for the family table it would be some- 

 thing astounding. 



Getting away from the more congested districts 

 and going out where the dwellers have yard space 

 at their disposal, one will find back yard flocks almost 

 everywhere. In such districts poultry is about as 

 common as cats and dogs, and, of course, considered 

 much more useful by the owners. 



Why do all these people keep poultry? A few 

 may keep them as pets, something to look at and 

 admire, but the vast majority keep poultry because 

 it pays. It means strictly fresh laid eggs at times 

 when such are scarce and expensive, and with the 

 absolute assurance that they are fresh. 



Aside from this there is a fascination and pleas- 

 ure in keeping good poultry. I say good poultry, 

 because I doubt whether any one can take as much 



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