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for profit were to meet with such losses, he would feel 

 obliged to give up poultry keeping. To the contrary, 

 however, it is found true that some who in former years 

 argued that poultry did not pay its handlers, are now 

 talking about the great profits in poultry. Actual 



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annual losses, with average good handling, need not go 

 above four or five per cent. One firm claims a loss of 

 less than one per cent, in the laying stock. 



The deductions which the manager of the Australian 

 tests made at the close of the eighth of the series, briefly 

 given, are as follows: — 



a. Egg production will pay well. 



b. Poultry farming demands only small areas. 



c. It can be made to pay, even when buying all the 

 feeds. 



d. Good strains of good breeds pay best. 



e. The fewer the number of breeds handled, the 

 more improvement. 



