Show I I STORY OF THE EXPERIENCES I OF AN AMATEUR POULTRY MAN I About tho the most sensible and I might arid add the tho most profitable beginning begin iu ning I over o saw sav made in in lie Iho P poultry business was by a 3 young clerk who J lived c in the suburbs of a J nearby HearLy city Ho lie sustained a u severe ero attack of the I hen hen fever or and as is the usua usual occurrence occurrence occurrence oc oc- oc- oc currence became enthused over o tho the enormous profit profits to be Ll made with I poultry He lie did ill not however ol allow his is enthusiasm to got get ct the best of his better Letter judgment and find cause causo him to reb resign resign re re- re- re b sign hi his clerkship and imme immediately em cm- embark bark in tIme tho business on a moro or less Jess extended scale cal as has so frequently fre fro fro- occurred ed but instead he hc held onto his clerkship fixed up a good oo comfortable little house on a It hack back lot Jot bought a dozen stan standard ar bred liens hens I ns and anda a rooster at a dollar a head of a neighboring farmer fanner and thus ma made madu his start This was early in the thc spring Dulin During Dur Dur- in ing the tho spring and summer he furnished the time family y table tab with C eggs and chickens chick chick- ens ns s. s an and besides hatched and raised something like a hundred young chick chicks Out of the these e he retained twenty five ci of the best cst pullets for breeders and o of course courso at tho the same time enar enlarged bi his bis house room i and aud mid so b by t the he next next- spring sprin wo u IO find that hi his business has bias Iron from natural causes tripled itself and al althis an anthis althis this time our friend line has ber beon n an and rapidly i gaining gainin in practical knowl knowledge knowledge edge of the busine q This lids natural increase increase continued for fo another year or two and by hy this time tim ho had hall lii his hili business so 50 firmly established established on eu a paying paving basis that ho he was wa justified in bU having bUng ng a small sinaI fann fana out al althe at atthe atthe the edge of town to and then and thero there becoming a full fledged making this his hiB exclusive occupation Speaking of profits profit ho recently tol told me mc that he scarcely managed to meet expenses ex ox- the time first year vear tho the second secor-d year ho hI slightly more than kept even evon while t the subsequent years cars cars have not failed faBe to show a nico nice little sum stun on the ri right ht sido silo of the ledger edger From Profitable J Chicken Raising Kaising by by Roscoe B. B Sando in inthe the Outing Magazine no for April |