ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF POULTRY CULTURE 6 1 



are men who are trying to build up a business on capital accumu- 

 lated from something else. No business started in this way has 

 ever continued long. As in ' ' practical ' ' poultry keeping, those 

 who succeed are men who have built up a business from small 

 beginnings and understand it thoroughly. The others usually lose 

 money a great deal faster than the successful ones make it. It is not 

 unusual for men with capital, embarking in fancy poultry culture, to 

 sink in a year an amount which would represent more than the total 

 wealth of most poultrymen who are making money with poultry. 



Fig. 76. Young China pheasants. (Photograph from Simpson's Pheasant 

 Farm, Ccrvallis, Oregon) 



Profitable combinations in poultry culture. Combinations are 

 usually made to suit the poultryman and his circumstances. As far 

 as the birds are concerned, with room and suitable locations and 

 arrangements for all, nearly all kinds might be kept on one tract 

 of land under one management. But poultry keepers are not equally 

 interested in or adapted to the different lines of work with poultry. 

 Whatever the original plan may be in any case, ultimately the work 

 is developed along the lines that the poultryman can make most 

 profitable, and usually consists of one principal line with several 

 others incidental. The combination of market and fancy poultry 



