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COMMERCIAL POULTRY RAISING 



records. Every day valuable information is brought to light 

 by the simple recording of a series of experiments; witness our 

 agricultural experiment stations. 



Eliminate the drones, the nonproducers, and cull the unde- 

 sirables and defectives, is the twentieth century farmer's slogan. 

 Get rid of the boarders, either as a class or as individuals; in- 

 stall breeds or stock of known reliability, those that are good 



{Courtesy U. S. Dep't Agriculture) 

 Fig. 62. — Wagon load of live poultry unloading at a Western packing house. 



tenants. Except for resolutions of this kind the two-hundred- 

 egg-hen would still be a myth; our flocks would never have 

 progressed beyond the average of five dozen eggs per year. In 

 fact, raising chickens could never have been made profitable, 

 not even as a side line, except for consistent efforts of careful 

 selection for many generations, which established a standard. 

 Simple Records. — Unless detailed information is desired, it is 



