SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
branch of poultry culture shall I take up? 
But even before he asks this question he 
should look about him and see what kind 
of a market he has for poultry products, 
what kind of products will be in the great- 
est demand, and what prices the market 
would be likely to pay for them. 
If you intend to raise a few birds in 
the back yard, for the sake of a few fresh 
eggs and an occasional broiler, choose 
any breed that you like best and can get 
the most pleasure out of. If after awhile 
you find another breed that you like bet- 
ter, change to it, for your poultry busi- 
ness is mostly one of pleasure, and you 
could probably get as much pleasure out 
of changing from one breed to another as 
anything else you could do. But if the 
beginner is going into the business for 
a livelihood, he should investigate all the 
conditions surrounding him, and choose 
a breed best suited to those conditions 
and stick to it. A change, when you are 
in the poultry business extensively, is apt 
to be very expensive, and sometimes it 
leads to failure. However, should he find 
that he had made a mistake in choice of 
breeds and finds other breeds better suited 
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