HINTS FOR BEGINNERS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2391, 1 December 1881, Page 4

HINTS FOR BEGINNERS.

To begin with, make up your mind to succeed. It is not at ail likely that you will find it all plain sailing from the first, but don’t be discouraged by trifles. IE the cholera should hoppen to come along, or anything else happen to upset your calculations, don’t declare that “ circumstances ” aro against you and give up in despair, but pick up your energies and try again. Circumstances are never against the man or woman who puts his or her foot down firmly and declares, “ I will succeed.”

If you turn your ottontion to fancy poultry raising, resolve to be the best breeder in your part ot the country. You moy not bo able to reach tho top of the ladder, and sit among the “ bright and shining lights ” of the poultry fraternity, but it is quito certain that if you don’t aim for tho top you will never get even half way up. And if you raise poultry for market make up your mind that your poultry shall bo the best goes to your market.

If you propose to commence with fowls, buy the best breeding-stock that you oan got. Very likely you will have to pay well for good stock, but you will find that the best will be the cheapest in the long run. If you commence with eggs buy of some reliable breeder near homo ; you will thus save in express charges, and the danger ot injuring by transportation will be greatly lessened.

Always buy of breeders who have a wellestablished reputation for honesty and fair dealing. Don’t attempt to keep but one variety to begin with. It you try to manage half a dozsn varieties when you know not how to manage one, tho chances are that you will fail with all. When you can breed one variety well, add another it you like, and so on until you have as many as you can handle successfully. Don’t crowd. If you attempt to keep 100 fowls in the space that should be allotted to twenty-five, you will soon discover that poultry keeping is not profitable. When you sell eggs or fowls deal squarely by your customers. Never send out a fowl that will not pass muster anywhere, and never send out an egg that is not fresh. It is a good rule to deal exactly as you would be dealt by every time.