SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
who can read other books, and I believe 
they do, as a rule, succeed better with 
them. The reason they succeed better for 
the most part is, I think, because their 
minds are not befogged with so many 
foolish notions that so many writers seem 
to think it their duty to write down for 
the guidance of their readers. Another 
reason is that they have learned their 
lessons from nature’s book, and those 
lessons are superior to the lesson taught 
by man. 
I hope you will take this book with 
you as you go to the field with mother 
hen, and read all its pages. I hope you 
will read and digest it well, and, after you 
have done so, if you think of something 
that you don’t find here, that you think 
would be worth trying, try it in a small 
way, and, if you find it good, adopt it as 
a part of your poultry practice, and then 
sit down with pen in hand and tell us all 
about it. Whether you are a good writer 
or not, the poultry and farm journals will 
always be glad to receive and publish any 
description of your methods that you have 
found by practice to be good. 
If your chicks don’t have access to a 
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