The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-11-03
SUCCESS HINTS
TO POULTRYMEN
Make Haste Slowly, Is Miller's
Advice-Thorough Informal
ton Necessary.
EXPERIENCE BEST SCHOOL
Biunders Are Fatal to Profits in Poul-
try Business-Eternal Vigilance,
the Price.
EXPERIENCE BEST SCHOOL
BY Ohio l.. Miller.

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article. Nor will l try to give the
reader technical or scientific knowl.
edge. for that information must be
secured from the schools where they
experiment with such matters Not
withstanding | have devoted consid-
am too good student to think
have secured all the knowledge or
that | have reached the apex where
can look backward or downward
upon the business and say | have ar
rived at the final stages of the poul
thing and everything / see with
much greater enthusiasm now than
when | first went into the business
The fact is that most of the men
who pose as experts and authorities.
find have only a textbook knowl-
edge gained in some special school;
that they have never planted tree,
MIXED a cow, sown grain, raised a
chicken, ran an incubator nor Oper
ated a brOoder. In fact, they have
never backed their knowledge with
the money and nerve. Therefore. l
say, we all have much to learn, no
matter what business we enter.
Experience the Only School.
While we can gather much valu-
able information from reading, ex-
perience is really the only school
When a man has backed his conf
dence with his money and tried out
his theories, made them win or seen
them lose, then, and not till then,
can he speak with authority. Only
40 out of every 100 inventions that
work in theory will work in prac-
tice The same rule holds good in
business, where the percentage is
even greater against the theory be-
ing able to hold good against prac-
of just what he will do when he opens
business-he may make the print, but
in nine cases out of ten he will have
to change it.
One Who Counted His Chickens.
All experienced ~pOuisTyman told
me that he had bought 1000 day.old
chicks and that with his new and
fine equipment he expected to have
900 laying pullets in the fall. Eight
hundred of them died within a week
and he bought 1000 more, and when
culling time came he had but 900 pull
lets, out of the 1000 baby chicks.
The blue print plan is all right, but
it will not do to tie to too closely.
We must expect to change it from
time to time-a rise in the price of
feed, or a drop in the price of eggs
may put crimp in it. We must have
plan, and pull forward to it, taking
up the slack as it comes with chang
ing conditions over which we have no
control Taking this view of the case
we are prepared to meet with dis
couragements and try again.
Every line of business is the same
and every business man who sue
ceeds must overcome the obstacles;
and those who fail are overcome by
the obstacles. / do not care much
for the man who has always been a
success, who has never lost anything.
He is too narrow, too conservative.
He has never taken any risks - just
played the game safely. 1t is the man
who has been over a rough road who
can tell you where the bad places are,
what to avoid, and where to detour
around the worst road. In my expert
ence l find that the greatest and
wisest of men, who have been active
in business, have always lost at GER
tain times, but they do not stop to
whine about it and let everybody
know it.
The number of deserted chicken
houses to be seen in the woods of
Western Washington are grim re-
minders of the blasted hopes of some
over-confident enthusiastic adventurer
into line of business he did not un-
derstand. They are monuments to the
folly into which men-often good bust
ness men-will fall. 1t is the knowl-
edge of the business you must have
before you can expect to succeed. A
man may edit paper, practice law.
medicine, dentistry, or preach and get
by with many blunders. but not so
with the chicken business. There are
certain things necessary to be done
to make chickens pay, and if you leave
any one of them undone you will fail
Eggs hatch at 1903 degrees and in 81
days the chicks will all be out of the
shells: but if the thermometer goes
to Ito or down to 80 and stays there
for very long it will be all OF with
the hatch. If chickens are neglected
they will accumulate lice, and then
sou will wonder why there is drop
off in the egg yield. If you feed toe
much grain and your hens get toe
fat and sit on the roost. you are mao
and condemn the breed Eggs are