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MAKING A START 
Making a Start in the Poultry Business—The Farmer 
and His Flock—The City Man and His Back-yard Flock 
—The Breeding Stock—The Choice of Breeds. 
Making a Start in In making a_ start 
ne Foner with poultry, if a person 
usiness . 
has no experience, per- 
haps the cheapest and best way to get it 
would be to get a job with some successful 
poultryman for awhile, even though you 
have to work for nothing. 
Another good way is to start with a 
few birds and gradually build up a flock 
and get experience at the same time. 
There is one great fault in the latter 
method: It is so easy to succeed with a 
few birds that the novice is apt to jump 
to the conclusion that he knows the busi- 
ness from A to Z before he has adequate 
knowledge, and invite failure by jump- 
ing in too deep. Deep water will be 
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