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be figured out to suit the needs and circumstances of each 

 producer. 



As to the capital necessary to engage in this business, 

 that also is a matter of individual judgment and opportunity. 

 Some successful poultrymen have been saved from disaster 

 by lack of capital, this lack compelling a safe and sure pace 

 while gaining their experience. 



Instances could be cited of poultrymen starting out A\ith 

 large capital, minus a practical knowledge of what was before 

 them, who used up their capital in gaining such kno\vledge, 

 and gave up the ship in disgust at the results, or from inability 

 to borrow more capital at the time when they had learned 

 how to use it. 



On the oth.er hand, instances could be cited of those vho 

 have had to do without capital because they had it not, or 

 could not procure it, but who have started in, in a small way, 

 and attained the necessary working knowledge as the}- went 

 along, and who, as a result, have grown into successful and 

 prosperous poultrymen. 



These varying results are accounted for when we con- 

 sider that a poultryman must know his business, and if he has 

 to learn the business, after engaging in it, a very large per- 

 centage of losses with a small flock amount to but a few dol- 

 lars ; whereas the same percentage on a large investment is 

 a very serious matter. 



Every man must do his own thinking, and if the reader's 

 thinking has been stimulated toward producing better eggs 

 and many more of them, to his own pleasure and profit, it 

 will be all the satisfaction desired by 



THE AUTHOR. 



