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No matter what you undertake, it is necessary to study your business. The
poultry business is no exception. The man who thinks he will make a fortune in
one year is doomed to failure. It requires not only study but long experience.
All the little ins and outs of the business must be learned by actual contact.
What breed to select, how to house your birds, how to feed, how to secure eggs,
how to hatch, how to grow the young fowls, how to procure feed, how to market
products, how to keep down expenses and yet get best results — all these and a
hundred more points must be carefully considered and carried out to a
successful issue. The man who does not realize that successful poultry-keeping
requires study and work would better let it severely alone. It is no holiday
job as so many seem to suppose. You must think about it by day and by night.
Of course, if hens laid eggs at word of command the problem would fie easy,
but they do not. It often takes the poultryman's highest art of coaxing to get
any action at all. And yet for the man who is zealous and fitted for the work
the poultry business has a rich reward. It never gave greater promise than
today. Thousands of people are making money at it and there is room for
thousands more. Any farmer can make a good thing out of eggs if he will. The
plan is to keep selecting the best layers and kill off or sell all others.
Replenish your laying stock by pullets out of eggs from best layers only. In a
few years you will have a flock of layers of very superior order. The common
farmer can run up a high laying record the same as any specialist if only he
will exercise common-sense and try.
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