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Show working, thoughtful man, a good Hv-Ipg, Hv-Ipg, a steady Joy and an assured home. Tha production of eggs la the safest and eaalest field for the beginner and where thla la to be the specialty, the White Leghorn breed la pre-eminent for large flocks, outaide of New England Eng-land and other districts demanding brown-shelled eggs. In order to be successful, the start must ba made In a email way, and tba Ideal plan la for the prospective owner own-er to work on soma successful poultry poul-try plant for at least six months or preferably a year, In order to learn the business from the Inside. Do not underestimate tba Importance of thla, as this business Is the most detailed and Intricate of all tba agricultural Industries. In-dustries. Tha returns are Yery satisfactory when the plant Is Intelligently bandied. Tbouaand hen planta may be equipped with an Investment of from four to sis thousand dollars and the net returns re-turns are from a dollar per hen up to the high figures secured by the fancy elok breeders. We knew three men In toutnern New England, one making 13.600 from a thousand hens, another making f 5,000 with only four hundred hens, and the third spent a hundred thousand dollars dol-lars on bla poultry plant and lost it all. The first two started small and grew slowly. The last one started b(g and ended amalL j Chicken Farming. There is no agricultural subject of greater Interest to all classes of people peo-ple than poultry keeping In aome form or other. Overy eighty out of a hundred farmers, farm-ers, large and small, the country over, keep bene. About forty per cent of the householders in small towns and villages keep backyard flocks, and tbe number of Docks in the great cities Is positively aatounding. Almost every man you know haa at some time been possessed with the idea that the eaalest way on earth to make a living la with chickens. If you doubt It ask the next man you meet what he thlnka about the chicken chick-en bualness. Go to a few poultry shows next winter, win-ter, after having industriously read the monthly Issues of a couple of good poultry journals thla summer, and by the time the Incubator salesman gets in his work it will take a straight-jacket straight-jacket to keep you from starting to keep' chickens. And really, It la a very fascinating occupation. No one need be ashamed of being a chicken "crank" in these daya, because tbe poultry Industry of the country le assuming such vaat proportiona that It bids fair to overtop aay other single sin-gle agricultural product In value at the time of the next cenaua. Further than this, no other product can equal It for net proflta to tbe producer, because be-cause the Investment in stock and equipment la exceedingly small compared com-pared to the returns. The labor, land and building Investment represented i by one dairy cow would take care of ; enough hena to bring In three times ! the profit ' Now then, can a man of ordinary in- i teUlgence. no experience and a small I capital, hope to get rich by raising ' chickens? There la but one answer I tod that ia. that be may hope to, but I be will not make good. The writer Is personally acquainted with prominent poultry men la nearly I ivery state la the Union, and while I many of them are well to do. not one i Is rich, aven from the farmer's atand- 1 point The poultry business offers the hard i |
