Poultry On A Large Scale

Time beyond mention kave we been asked whether poultry, bred on a large scale, will pay, and why there are so many wlio still ask for information on the all-absorbing question we cannot say, for it has been answererl scores of times. To commenco with, there is undoubtedly as rnuch in the man as in the business, in fact considerable more, for we have seen pushing, stirring and thorough-going men make even indifferent things pan out well, while men of opposite character andmeagre mental calibre, with really good and meritorious thinga. could not make even a fair percentage of profil. The right kind of a man will make a success of any thing, no matter how long it may take him, for he will surely crown his efforts, although it will not require so mucíh labor, time or money, íí eome knowledge of the requirenients of the business of breeding is flrst gained by experience, and to determine whether ycu are ütted for making it a success on a largo scale, try the thrng in a small way first, and if you sucoeed, gradually increase until you have a8 many fowls as you have the time and means to attend to. One grea mistake in attempting to breed poultry on a large scale is to endeavor to keep thern all iu one house or iDclosure. Experience, time and again, has demonstrated conclu3ively that it is best not to keep more than about fifty breeding f'owl3 in one house ; and that, ií you want to breed two hundred fowls, to divide them into flocks of fifty each, giving each lot a separate house and grounds to run on. Aside from any other reason, it s a vevy prudential way of doing, for if disease strikes one flock, there will be a possibility of the other flocks escaping, while if they were all together, there would bo a moral certainty of the entire lot being swept away in a few dava, fór the cholera soon does its work, and seenis to delight in attacking and killing the large flocks ürst. We have ïnerely thrown out hints to those who contémplate breeding poultry on a large scalo, for proflt, and trust what we have said will serve to make them proceed with cautiou, for all rash ventures are apt to result disastrously, and iiscouragement and loss naturally