Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Neglected Fowls. [ARTICLE]

Neglected Fowls.

It fa seldom that neglected fowls are profitable. A great many people have conceived the Idea that they can start a flock and let It alone and that the results will be profits day by day. As well might a farmer plant a field to anything and expect It to produce a good crop without caring for It The weeds would soon grow up and choke the economic plant*. In the poultry house we do not have weeds, but we have lice, mites, rata, cats, hawks, diseases of many kinds and thieve*. These' all correspond to the weeds that choke the crop in the field. They make it impossible for the lazy person to succeed.