POULTRY ON THE FARM. 7 
local experience in selecting and running incubators 
and brooders, with near markets ready to receive 
the product, the chances seemed in every way to 
favor success. Yet even then I noticed the impul- 
siveness and impatience of the younger element that 
was taking hold of the business, and the rashness 
with which they rushed in where the older and more 
experienced ones had feared to tread. I could not 
overlook the fact that, while there were some mod- 
erate successes on a moderate scale, large-scale 
operations were yet in an experimental stage, and I 
foresaw that there would be a liberal sprinkling of 
failures among the successes. 
I have also watched with interest the start and 
.development of other large poultry enterprises else- 
where, but found that final failure was the rule, and 
moderate success the exception. In short, I have 
seen so much of this, that I feel perfectly safe in 
prophesying failure, when I see one of the smart 
young fellows embark in poultry raising with a full 
equipment of incubators, brooders, ete; but without 
previous practical experience. Theories. in this 
field are terribly misleading. 
- But as I said before, poultry in the usual num- 
bers on the farm are a paying stock. And yet they 
can be made to pay still better than they really do 
now. The ordinary management is abominable. 
The scrub stock so generally met with 
until only afew years ago, is fortunately 
less common, and signs of mixture of 
blooded stock, especially of Plymouth Rock, Leg- 
horns, etc., may be seen everywhere. This is at 
least one great step in advance, but it is only one, 
Poultry 
on the Farm. 
