. Dollars and sense in the poultry business ... Poultry industry. Don't Kill the Layer- Swat the Drone easy to start It is easy to start a successful poultry farm if you know how. If you do not have a thorough knowledge of poultry culture, however, you are no more apt to succeed with chickens than with any other business that you do not thoroughly understand. For many reasons the poultry business is more desirable than almost any other. In the first place large capital is not required. It is not expensive to feed poultry if you know how. You really have no selling expense as your market is awa
. Dollars and sense in the poultry business ... Poultry industry. Don't Kill the Layer- Swat the Drone easy to start It is easy to start a successful poultry farm if you know how. If you do not have a thorough knowledge of poultry culture, however, you are no more apt to succeed with chickens than with any other business that you do not thoroughly understand. For many reasons the poultry business is more desirable than almost any other. In the first place large capital is not required. It is not expensive to feed poultry if you know how. You really have no selling expense as your market is awaiting you. You are assured splendid food for your own table. Not a great deal of time is required and every member of the family can help. It is certainly much healthier than office or other indoor work. Backed with a thorough knowledge of poultry culture you have every chance of success, but if you lack this knowledge it is just as easy to lose money and a lot of it in a very short time. Then why take chances? FOR THE CITY MAN, CLERK OR MECHANIC For the man in the city the raising of poultry offers exceptional oppor- tunities. If you feel the strain of the city life—if you want to get out of hot, stuffy offices or shops—if you want to breathe again pure, fresh air uncontaminated by smoke, soot or germs—if the sunshine, the fields, the brooks still call to you, barken to the "Call of the Hen," for she will make many of these things possible. The city man has as good a chance raising chickens as anybody, many think better, for he is willing to admit his ignorance and study and learn. He realizes the value of knowledge and is willing to get it. "The City Farmer" has passed the stage of ridicule, for it is he who puts his poultry farm on a business basis and who nine times out of ten succeeds, for he has studied this subject. Some of the most successful poultry plants are owned .and run by ex-city men. The possibilities of even a city lot can scarcely be
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