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wwwagBWHagaBBHrwFJpjjJUJ iaysyT?yvgV?y'g'gvyy e CANT "GET RICH QUICK" WITH CHICKEN'S, EXPERTS WARNING Don't start the chicken busi ness on a large scale let it be a side issue at first. Hold down your job and sup port the chickens on your salary till you learn enough to make them support you. i V "5M-1""-'-' ' 'l H. F. Ru. It is the largest small business in the country. It is the poorest get-rich-quick industry. Only 10 per cent stick in the business afte'r the first year. Experience can coax more egg3 ; out of a hen than money. Egg and chicken production ia a science. The treatment of a chicken, its feeding and its housing, count in-' definitely more than the breed. The pullet year, or the first) year, is the best egg-producing year., ' These are some of the pearls of ' chicken wisdom fr6m the mouth of H. F. Rau of Spannaway, Wash", who hatches 755,000 -chicks a year. Rau has been in i the business since 1875. He experienced with incubat- -ors before they were patented. . He has two machines of his own make. Rau also has perfected a 7 fireless brooder, which he calls the modern hen, by which he , manages to furnish heat to thcv little chicks from their own bod ies. Rau can tell "by a mere chirp just what ailment any chick might have. He can spot a case of roup, of laryngitis by catching the wrong note in -the barnyard grand opera. "While the work is of a light nature, there is plenty of hard j work," Rau says. "It is not a 4 business that can well be taken care of By invalids. The breed of a chicken has far less to do- than the care given it. Experi ence, gradually acquired, is the best kind." Rau, who owns a 12-acre ranch near Tacoma, is considered the ' i vfc -J4. 4 w -.