SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
To try to breed the weakness out of the 
sickly flock would be a slow, expensive 
process; however, it can be done by fol- 
lowing the law of evolution as taught in 
this book; and perhaps, for the beginner 
who wants to get experience and is not 
easily discouraged, it would be a good 
thing to do. Experience, after all, counts 
for more than any other one thing in the 
poultry business; and if you can get it 
by breeding a sickly flock healthy, ‘per- 
haps you are the gainer by doing so; but 
from a money standpoint you would be 
loser, unless you put a money value on 
your experience. 
The breeding stock, in order to pro- 
duce strong, fertile eggs, must be well 
mated and kept in the best possible health 
and vigor. If the birds have plenty of 
range, where green food and insects are 
plentiful, this is easy, but if they are 
confined in small yards, the problem be- 
comes more difficult. It is almost impos- 
sible to get a good per cent. of fertile eggs 
from flocks that are closely confined, and 
this is more ‘especially true if the birds 
are crowded. If close quarters can not 
be avoided, then the difficulty can be 
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