PART II 



The Revolution and Its Results 



CHAPTER V 



Basic Theories 



"Whys? and Wherefores!" 



The writer, in his experience of twelve years of keeping 

 poultry on the same piece of ground, in addition to his pre- 

 vious experience elsewhere, had reasons to ask a good many 

 "whys," and has concluded that, as a result of asking the 

 "whys" he now is in a position to wrj^e "wherefores" to some 

 of these "whys." 



Observing that he always got some winter eggs when 

 many others, and among them some neighbors in close prox- 

 imity, failed to get them, the question arose "why?" Their 

 flocks looked well, but did not produce — the "wherefore" of 

 this "why" was found in the fact that the other flocks were 

 not fed sufficiently to sustain themselves, and at the same 

 time produce eggs. Their outlay for feed was a dead expense ; 

 whereas, if they had increased the quantity of feed they would, 

 in ail probability, have had this expense returned to them, 

 plus a small profit. 



Observing, in caring for his flock late at night in the 

 winter time, after the birds had been on the roost some hours, 

 that the lantern light brought the birds off the roosts to at- 

 tempt feeding; and that he had, on many occasions, to turn 

 down the lantern light to a minimum, before he could get the 

 birds back on the roost, the question "why" naturally arose, 

 and to "Ask the birds, their judgment is good." 



Observing that when placing feed in the feed box for 

 cockerels (which having been separated from the pullets, 

 were fed in a separate pen) late at night by lantern light, they 

 immediately got down off the roost to eat out of the box, the 



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