MAKING A START 
promoting the strength of their rivals. 
Do not crowd the breeding stock. If 
you would have healthy and profitable 
birds, don’t allow more than half as many 
on a roost as could be put on it by crowd- 
ing them. Their range must be ample; 
remember that one hen kept at a profit is 
better than one hundred kept at a loss; 
you may give your poultry the very best 
of care, and if you crowd them they will 
not be profitable, while with ample room 
they would be. The environment that 
Nature gives her fowls must be imitated 
by man as much as possible, if he would 
succeed; Nature gives them plenty of 
room, and a clean, cool, damp place in 
which to hatch their eggs, and a clean 
roost free from lice and mites. 
If a flock of birds have good, clean 
surroundings that are kept clean all the 
time, and they get good care and atten- 
tion and proper food, and they are not 
healthy, there is something wrong with 
the birds. And if a good many of them 
are sickly, instead of trying to doctor 
them up with medicine, it would be better 
to discard them and buy some good, 
strong; healthy birds to take their place. 
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