SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
bought from the lumber-yard. Many peo- 
ple who are handy with tools, and are 
ingenious, use goods boxes and barrels, 
which they work over into handy coops. 
If, however, you have not the time, nor 
the genius, nor the desire, to make your 
own coops from material found on the 
place or close at hand at the stores and 
lumber-yards, then they can be bought 
from the dealers in poultry supplies or 
direct from the manufacturer of such sup- 
plies, whose advertisements you will find 
in your poultry and farm papers. 
If you have to buy new lumber to make 
coops from, and have no plans to work 
from, it is, perhaps, cheaper and more 
satisfactory to buy ready-made from the 
dealer or manufacturer. This is especially 
true if you have plenty of other work to 
do, that needs doing, and the money is at 
hand with which to make the purchase. 
The proper care and feeding of the 
little chicks are, perhaps, the most difficult 
things the poultryman has to learn. While 
the baby chicks are not entirely helpless, 
like the human baby, and therefore do not 
need such constant care and attention, yet 
they need gentle and loving care at the 
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