Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-23
MSUR|NG SUCCESS
IN POULTRY CULTURE
Mastery Of One Unit of Operation
Means Mastery of
Many.
Success With Fifty Fowls Plus Or
ganizing Ability spellk Success
With Five Thousand.
BY G. r. SMITH,

In every business the unit is the key
that must unlock the first doors of
| success. Let US see what this means
The dairyman who has mastered the
! handling of one COW has passed through
the hrst essential stage of successful
datrying. If he can't make good with
one he has no sure ground of hope for
making good with ten or with fifty
He must know one COW thoroughly or
he can never know fifty. If he would
fail with one his failure would be fifty
times as great with fifty. 1t is so with
every kind of work. The man who
can't hoe one hill of corn right will
fail with a whole field. The unit is at
| the basis of every business
The man who keeps fifteen hens in
his back yard is handling one unit of
operation. If he makes good here he is
ready to proceed to a larger PROPOSE
| ton. But he must not forget that sue
cess with the single unit means more
than purchasing a few well bred hens
and feeding them according to direc-
| tons a ration balanced scientifically by
some one else. Mastery is not attained
| In this easy manner. Several seasons
Of study and experience will be needed
| 1t is one thing to own a fowl that will
scale 100 per cent in vigor and fancy
points and laying qualities. 1t is quite
a different thing to conserve all these
excellencies and transmit them in equal
measure to the next generation of
fowls This means mastery of hatch
| ing and brooding. There is enough in
each one of these to command the high
est powers of the scientific specialist
Together they involve the vital prob
| lens of egg fertility, incubator skill,
temperature, feeding, watering, finish
J ing. culling, classifying, marketing sur
mr. <nf 9TH II
| that the right kind of man will dis
cover as he proceeds. These mastered
| on the small scale, we are ready for
the next key word.
| Correlation of Units Means Success.
| Correlation Is the next step. The more
common word is organization The
man who can't correlate his units had
! better avoid the poultry business. This
| power to see the true relations of
| things Is what makes a captain of in
| dustry. The commander of a company
OF 100 soldiers must prove his ability
to handle a hundred different com
panies and keep them in right combi-
nations of regiments and brigades, and
dispose them In the most effective man.
| ner for success in battle, before he can
| do the work of chief.
| 1t is the ability to organize a large
able to win in any large undertaking.
This Is true in the poultry business.
| The man who can't keep his units of
operation distinct and yet vitality and
properly related falls just the pro-
prietor of department store would
fail II he lost sight of each department
and neglected to keep all the depart
| ments rightly related. Confusion is the
deadly peril of poultry culture. The
man who keeps a thousand laying hens
and at the same time Is rearing 5000
| chicks of varying ages on the same
farm. is in daily danger of getting "all
balled up with the details of his work
Here is where thousands fail. They may
be able to handle one unit, one small
colony Of from so to 200, but they fall
down" in organizing skill. Things get
mixed in their minds. Add to this the
demand for real commercial genius in
the purchase of feed and equipment
and making sales of the product, and
| 1t Is easy to see that poultry culture is
on the same basis as any other bust
ness. That is, thorough knowledge
Of details must be accompanied by high
organizing ability, either natural or
acquired. Here Is where many fall by
attempting too much without the re-
CURED knowledge and experience.
Two Methods of Operation.
% Intensive Methods-Where the
, unit is exceedingly small and the
space per fowl correspondingly small
the danger of confusion is still greater.
| II the unit consists of fifteen birds or
| less in one pen in one range. 1t is evil
dent that there would be some $50
| units of operation in a stock of 1000
| birds While the small unit is very
important for certain purposes, it is
very evident that the larger flock prin-'
| cipie must be employed ordinarily. The
amount of work and detail demanded
! in the care of SO many units involves
much greater danger of necessary
neglect in extremes of heat and cold,
especially II help Is short.
(2) Extensive Methods.-Such meth
I DDS mean larger space and a larger
| number Of birds in each division or
| unit This avoids much danger of con-
| fusion in the different departments of
| the business: but 1t means risk of dan
| gerous confusion among individual
! birds. A much larger business with
| much less work and worry may be con-
Quoted on the extensive plan than on
| the intensive. There are advantages
and disadvantages in each system.
| Whichever is adopted, the most
| thorough study should be given to it,
with a full appreciation of the de-
| mands made.
| Sources Of Information.
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