OULTRY raising is about as 

 old as the hills, but only 

 within the past generation have 

 the full possibilities of the 

 industry been realized. No one can 

 predict the future. Observation and 

 reading are doing much to post the 

 public on facts regarding it and there 

 seems to be no limit in sight — all that we know is that poultry raising is 

 now one of the most profitable industries and that it is rapidly advancing. 

 Capital is finding its way to investment in poultry raising, and into the 

 manufacture of correct appliances for its further advancement. Poultry 

 culture has the confidence of the general public and, while many will always 

 fail from lack of application and proper regard for necessary conditions, 

 these failures will be in no greater proportion than may be found in any 

 industry that tempts the unworthy and the unfit by its promise of unusual 

 profits. The course of any line of human endeavor is marked by the wrecks 

 of those who fail, and who would fail in any venture where study and ap- 

 plication are required. To the man who is willing to give it his earnest at- 

 tention, his zeal and application, it offers the inducement of a healthy and 

 pleasant occupation and the very best chance for money making. 



WHERE TO START 



In selecting a site for a poultry plant, you are not obliged to choose 

 high priced land. If you' can select well drained, well watered, gravelly soil, 

 it would be desirable. If this land is somewhat wooded so much the better, 

 as shade is a valuable factor in poultry raising, and must be supplied if 

 there is no natural shade. If you can choose a plot where the ground 

 slopes to the south, or southeast, it will provide the sun radiation so neces- 

 sary for natural warmth and sanitation. Avoid a clay soil. 



In laying out your plan for a house, see that it ^onts a little east of 

 direct south. The direct south would be right were it to be continual sum- 

 mer, but, when winter comes; you will need all the sun radiation you can 

 find, and the slight turn to the east will provide it when it will do the most 

 ■good. This position will shelter the front of the building from the west and 

 northwest winds. If you have some good meado* land it will be of great 

 value, for thereon you can grow clover, or it will produce corn and other 

 cereals. It has, been found that clover can be made the base of profitable 

 feeding, and a^poultry farm so situated that it may produce an abundance 

 of green food is well selected. 



Before you start to build, consider carefully the question, of drainage. 

 The surface water should run from, the house — not towards 'it — and you 

 must be careful that moisture cannot collect underneath, the house to seep up 

 through the floor: r If water can collect under the house, you cannot well dry 

 it, even with ventilation beneath. Cess pools under the house will endanger 

 the health of fowls. 



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