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Show Inevitable Mistakes. No one that has not had experience In poultry raising should Invest heavily heav-ily in that, business, The only safe j way is to etatt. small and Increase the flock fcs rapidly as experience increases. in-creases. The novice generally starts in with the Arm resolve to succeed from the start. Frequently he gets all the information he can from books and from practical poultrymen, and he vainly imagines that the information so acquired will save him from mistakes. mis-takes. But the mistakes are made Just the same, though they are doubtless doubt-less fewer on account of what has been gleaned from the experiences of others. People must have experience experi-ence by themselves to really fit them to cope with the numerous situations they must face. Let the novice set it j down tx a certainty that he will make j mistakes of a most serious nature, and that as a result of such mistakes ; great losses will result. In some cases these losses will be greater than the profits for the entire year in which they occur. We tell the novice of this before they occur, so that he may not be entirely discouraged and give U, the effort when they do occur. B'en people that have been brought. up on farms encounter these discouraging experiences when they try to handle fowls in considerable n'mberg. The ones that have had a )lttie experience in raising poultry a' e the ones most likely to invest cf nsiderable sums la an equipment u'jfore they arQ really competent to r janage such equipment. Because they have had some experi. ence they ' ifflagiue themseives to be experts. jylost of failures are due to mexp erieijCej but the people that av i? .iled are not usually willing to admit this even tQ the!IjSeives, Even j the iarm boy . that has fed chickens a"y gathered eggs since childhood il do wei). to go a little slow when e enters the ranks of professional i chicken risers, for it. -tufts less to lose 50 r t;r cent of a flock of a hundred hun-dred thp & tt does to lose a like proportion propor-tion of n thousand fowls. |