Show CAUSES OF MANY FAILURES IN POULTRY J A badly mixed but busy family every failure in the poultry bustness business can be traced according to james G poultry man at the wisconsin college of agriculture to one or more of the lowing fallowing fal reasons rea sona 1 too expensive and too impractical buildings flachs do not require costly equipment and of courso the poultry man must pay interest on his investment 2 lack of experience and failure to raise chicks properly many a man has jumped into the poultry business with little or no experience and naturally has lost money in his plunging 3 failure to market right to produce a superior product Is not enough it must be ba advantageously marketed 4 starting with poor stock it costs little or no more to start with profit producing stock than it does doea with inferior fowls 5 neglect in improving breeding stock by carefully selecting the hens and mating eating thorn them with well chosen males more improvement will bo be secured 6 0 neglect in cleaning filth to la a certain cause of loss to the poultry man 7 neglect in fighting lice and mites these pests are a source of heavy loss to all who do not fight them 8 poor management like every other business poultry raising requires close attention loa to details should go slow the more common cause of failure Is 19 too heavy investment many farm era start with expensive buildings as soon eoon oa as they get the hen fever they run into debt become discouraged utter after a few mistakes and quit the business it Is wiser to patch up the old id poultry house and make improvements gradually as your profits warrant the expenditure all amateur poul 40 blow alow up his flock from humble beginnings tho the next most common cause of failure Is lack of experience no ono one should enter the poultry business offhand without any experience in raising ing chicks he ha should serve an apprenticeship on some poultry farm or if ho he can and before lie he starts out foi himself he should take a course nl at some recognized poultry school after he has haa learned the ways of the flock lie he may have some assurance of sue suc coss cosa nut but many mistakes and failures aro are sure to beset tho the path of the inexperienced perien ced many poultry mort men fall to market correctly thoy either got get too tor far away from tho the market or try to force themselves upon an overcrowded market and they often fall to put their goods up in attractive packages and do not advertise A good understanding of the market condl condi eions of a given locality to Is essential in building up a trade there it Is absolutely essential to have good stock to start with no poultry man need expect to have hava any success if ho he starts out with a flock of board oro era the stock need not be pure bred but it must be good enough to more than pay for its keep the hock flock must be improved belm proved by caro ful selection and by the of new strains when necessary eack brood of chicks must be better the last if the poultry lousiness business la Is t be ba a 9 success tho the N boarders aders and th tin stragglers mit bo be culled out coo con stant slant improvement Is the surest road to success A very common cause of failure it just plain neglect neglect in cleaning up the house neglect lu spraying and in fighting lice and mites there la Is no excuse for this kind kina of failure the poultry man should bo be continually on guard against insects and diseases and above all lie he must always keep his bla house and hla his birds clean all of these causes of failure may be summed up in one word and that word Is mismanagement the three great laws of success in poultry may be summed dupAn VP follows bost some experience before going into business improve your stock and keep clean all the time the only cure cura for mismanagement Is common sense bense and the farmer who expects to make a W I 1 sue cue cess ceis out of poultry should keep a good stock of it with him |