36 THE AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 



industry in our own poultry business and make that business of ours 

 amount to something in the estimation of our town banker. 



For whom do you plan to grow fine fowl? A back-lot fancier? 

 If so, that type of purchaser will influence the ends for which you 

 bred and the kind of business which you develop. Are you growing 

 seed stock for a great animal industry composed of poultry raisers 

 who are ever dependent on the constructive effort of poultry breeders 

 for new stock and new blood to reinforce their flocks? Then you 

 will not grow your birds soft, you will not be satisfied to grow just 

 a few of them, but you will seek to develop a type that will prove 

 highly useful in the hands of men and women working under average 

 conditions, and you will seek to multiply your supply of such stock 

 to meet the demand. 



We do not need greater opportunity in poultry. What we stand 

 in need of today is larger vision. There are nearly six million farm 

 flocks in the United States. There are perhaps as many more back- 

 lot ooultrykeepers. 



