Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-27
BREEDERS MUST
READ AND STUDY
No Chance to Make Good in
Poultry Business Unless You
Study 1t Carefully.
BY Il. Il. sToDDARD.

NO one has done well in poultry raising
who has neglected to avail himself of
good reading matter and of the passing
advantages around him, | have been in
touch, through correspondence or person
al acquaintance, with very many poultry
rasers, and in looking the ground all
over do not remember one who amount
ed To a Hill of beans who secuted and
decried reading matter devoted to his art
True it is, indeed that there is much
useless and worse than useless slush
printed. But ii is SO in regard to every
other subject. and readers must learn t.
sift and discard, judge and compare. The
sloth or the idler in this work of poultry
raising is not a success. There are other
persons also. of a speculative turn OF
mind, who have gone into this business
at the wrong end, who have become dis
gusted with their i'll fortune Others
nave tried to do a great deal in a very
NIUE time, who have succeeded in ac-
eomphshing very little, it is true.
You Must Know Your Business
we could cite examples of individuals
who have means, brains and the nclina-
ZION to make 1t pay" but who lacked
inc tact, experience and pluck that are
requisite to make any business undertake
ing remunerative. These have gone into
poultry raising without knowing much
or anything about the work, and they
nave gone out disgusted with their losses
There is no more doubt about the fact
lhat poultry keeping on a large scale can
De made protitable-if tightly understood.
properly managed and dutifully attended
lo-than there is that any sort of rural
OF mercantile pursuit can be made TO yield
satisfactory returns, when similarly CON
quoted, as every enterprise should he.
AZ the same time, as we have frequent
mad occasion to assert no man can ex-
pect to undertake the raising of poultry
without knowing something about the
business, If he contemplates or attempts
10 work in an extensive way. This IS
self evident And those who try this
pursuit should at first begin moderately
ana study up the details of the business
petore they launch out with dozens Of
poultry houses and thousands of chicks
ana hens to take care of. about which
lhey know little or nothing as TO their
needs or requirements.
It's No Job for Half Wits.
The greatest trouble next to the neg
iect Of reading matter, mentioned above,
Is an underestimate OF the business it
self and the notion that there can not be
much to learn, since any old woman
Knows how to tend fowls,
fou may have been raising two or more
breeds of pure bred poultry You have
gotten quite a lot of eggs from each. A
visitor asks you which are the best lay
efs and you have to answer, 81 think
such one is If figures are wanted
YOU can not give them, for you have kept
no account so you can merely guess at
tne result. Another caller may like TO
Nho" how much feed you give each Of
your hocks but you have neither meas
ured Your feed nor kept any account, so
9ou can merely guess at the result. You
uo not know how much your fowls cost
you and do not know how much you
nave realized, so you are in doubt wheth-
Il they are really profitable or not.
mere is no little contrivance that the
poultry breeder will find of more every
Gay utility than a small notebook that
ian tie carried in the breast pocket OF
oHe coat. Such a book can be purchased
a. any book store. and of a size to fit
ohS pocket, very handy form Is made
aoout four inches broad and two and
~ may be kept closed by rubber band
Raassea around ii whenever IL is pocketed.
MS ms Is especially desirable for the colder
~ ,,oItns a smaller memorandum book TO
~ pocket In your shirt will do better
'or the remainder of the year.
", ne uses OF such book are manifold.
al or us know how often points for
t{nSIderation occur to us at inopportune
bates ana fade from our memories long
lure we have chance to put our ideas
ho a. Test II will be found. too, that the
nanlt of recording stimulates both OBJ
serVation and reflection.