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Show POULTRY ON AVERAGE FARM Makes No Great Demands on Strength and Any Person of Intelligence May Make Success. In this country poultry Includes chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea gui-nea fowls, pigeons and occasionally pea fowls, pheasants, quail and swans chickens, of course, being the most Important. Something like a quarter of a billion chickens and other poultry are consumed In the United States every year, The consumption of eggs Is about eighteen dozen per capita. The last census gave the value of chickens raised on American farms In 1899 as $138,891.877 of eggs as $114. 286. H8. Today the American people consume about half a billion dollars' worth of poultry and eggs per annum. Exports are Increasing and one may enter on the raising of poultry and eggs with little fear of not realising good prices on all produce. pro-duce. Probably 90 per cent of the farms In the United States raise poultry as a side line; feeding is more economical econom-ical where general farming Is pursued. pur-sued. Still there are manifest advantages ad-vantages la specializing greater attention, at-tention, knowledge and skill achieve better results. Poultry raising makes no great demands de-mands on strength, and any person of Intelligence may hope to make a success of It. Hut some have made the mistake of supposing that the business can be taken up on a considerable con-siderable scale without any experience. experi-ence. Hens lay all the way from none to 250 eggs a year, and It takes some experience to tell with what kind of hens and under what conditions, condi-tions, the upper limit can be reached. Probably the best course for the Intending poultry raiser would be to work for a year or more on one of the large chicken ranches In order to learn the Important points of breeds, feeding, fattening, bousing, brooding. Incubating, etc. The raising of broilers, broil-ers, roasters and capons for the market may be a paying occupation on an egg farm. If one secures the right kind of stock and gives the work the proper attention and management. No kind of poultry Is more profitable than turkeys. |