National Agricultural Library

Success With Poultry: A Book on Successful and Profitable Poultry Raising, Containing Valuable Information for Persons Who Think of Engaging in Any Branch of The Poultry Business for Profit

Fifth Edition

Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company. Quincy, IL

This book is to be compiled in dead earnest. Poultry keeping may be a fad with a limited few but in a vast majority of cases it is a serious matter, a question of bread and butter, of a livelihood, and any book writ-ten or compiled on the subject of Success with Poultry should view the poultry business in this light. We shall not put into this book a single statement nor a bit of advice in which we have not full confidence. We do not wish to misrepresent in the least, or to deceive anybody. We do hope that this book may be the means of helping a large number of people who wish to better their condition in life and are in a position to handle poultry with both pleasure and profit.

We shall put into this book, therefore, only the best information and best advice at our command, doing so with a full understanding of our responsibility.

Success with Poultry depends upon much the same things that success does in any undertaking or business enterprise. To be successful in any line of work slothful, careless, extravagant habits must give way to thrifty, pains-taking and economical methods. Thought must be put into your work.

Cause and effect must be studied; all the details must be looked after with intelligent care, and the hand that receives the income must constantly watch the hand that pays out. There is money — "good money", as the saying goes — to be made out of poultry, but this business like any other, must be learned before great things can be accomplished. Like other human enterprises, poultry-raising pays better and better accordingly as you put more and more thought into the business. In the poultry business, above all others, ordinary common sense is the thing most needful.