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COMMERCIAL POULTRY RAISING 



this analysis is hair-splitting. Not so. It is common sense in the 

 extreme. One of the fundamentals of good business is to apply 

 one's talents to the best advantage, where they are the most con- 

 genial, the most productive, and where they can be made to 

 specialize. Aimlessness is almost fatal to success in any line of 

 endeavor. It is like the proverbial rolling stone. Fix your mind 

 on a specific end, and then select the conditions best suited to 

 accomplish that end. 



Fig. 7. — White Wyandottes. 



The person who starts out with a fondness for a particular 

 breed of chickens should capitalize on that fondness if it is at all 

 feasible. For example, we will say that a person is partial to 

 Light Brahmas. See Fig. 6. That person should make his spe- 

 cialty meat, and not eggs. If, on the other hand, he favors Silver 

 Campines to the exclusion of all other breeds, he should make his 

 specialty eggs, and not meat. The Light Brahma is one of the 



