SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
on the average town or city market. 
And the pleasure and recreation you 
will get in caring for such a plant will be 
worth so much to you, and the relaxation 
from your daily toil and care will be such 
a valuable asset, that you will soon look 
upon it as one of your most valued invest- 
ments. 
The birds will talk and sing to you in 
the most joyous way imaginable, and their 
talk and song will carry you back so close 
to nature and your childhood days on the 
farm that you will forget the trials of life 
that have been oppressing you. 
The cost of keeping this little back- 
yard flock would hardly be felt, for they 
would live mostly on waste products from 
the kitchen that would otherwise go into 
the garbage-can; and even if all their 
food had to be bought, the flock would, as 
a rule, be found profitable. 
As to choice of breeds, I believe the 
best for the back-yard plant are some of 
the more quiet, so-called dual-purpose 
fowls. They are the medium-sized fowls 
between the small, non-sitting breeds and 
the very heavy breeds. 
The light, non-sitting breeds are very 
16 
