Excerpt from Successful Poultry Keeping: A Text Book for the Beginner and for All Persons Interested in Better Poultry and More of It This book is essentially a compilation-of the writings and experiences of many' practical, observing business men who are poultrymen first, then fanciers or purveyors to the poultry markets as their several interests dictate. We have endeavored to collect the latest and best reliable information for the beginner with poultry, telling him how to start, what others _are doing and have done, the best houses to build, how to Amanage his flock, in fact we try to show him, inso far as we may, how to become a successful poultry keeper. Successful poultry keeping depends upon much the same things that success does in _any undertaking or business enter prise. To be successful in any line of Work slothful, careless, extravagant habits must give way to thrifty, pains - taking and economical methods. Thought must be put into your work. Cause and effect -must be studied; all the details must be looked after with intelligent care, and the hand that receives the income must constantly watch the hand that pays. Out. There is money good money, as the saying goes - to be made out. Of. Poultry, but this business like any other, must be learned before great things can be accomplished. Like other human enterprises, poultry-raising pays better and better accordingly as you put more and more thought into the business. In'the poultry business, above all others, ordinary common sense is the thing most needful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.