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sum to the income, if you feed and house them 
right. And the feeding need not be much of an 
expense, if you save the table scraps and give 
corn, cabbage and other green stuffs, buying 
whatever wheat and oats you can’t raise. In 
winter, change their drinking water frequently 
and see that it is slightly warmed. If you 
cannot provide running water, then you must 
give them clean water many times a day all the 
year around. 
As a matter of fact, the amount of effort ex- 
pended is pretty closely related to the profits 
to be derived. Whether you raise hens, ducks, 
geese, squabs, or any of the many animals now 
raised for profit on the home acre, you must 
study their needs just as you must study plant 
needs, if you are to succeed. Only by the use of 
intelligence can you expect to reap profits, and 
to natural intelligence must be added study. A 
man could not expect to be a successful teacher 
of mathematics unless he had studied all the au- 
thorities in his special line, and kept himself in 
touch with all the new theories as they were 
advanced. Soit is with the farmer. If he does 
not read the papers that deal especially with his 
calling, he cannot keep in touch with the im- 
provements and discoveries constantly made in 
his line. He should take in at least two 
