POULTRY KEEPING AND KEEPERS 



who have lost almost that much on poultry in the 

 course of a few years. The difference is in the 

 men, not in the poultry business. More depends 

 upon the man than upon the poultry business, 

 whether the ultimate result be profit or loss. 



We have long outlived the age when the verdict 

 was almost unanimous that u poultry don't pay." 

 There are too many men, now, making comfortable 

 incomes from poultry, and too many whose annual 

 earnings amount well up in the thousands, for 

 there to be any doubt about the profitableness 

 of poultry. The blame for failure cannot any 

 longer be attached to the business; it must be 

 charged against the man, since it has been conclu- 

 sively proven that poultry keeping is profitable 

 under favorable conditions. There is no danger 

 of the business being overdone, because the de- 

 mand is increasing faster than the supply, and 

 America is forced to import large quantities of 

 poultry products every year. The trusts and com- 

 bines never have " froze out " the individual pro- 

 ducer, and never will, for the reason that the poul- 

 try industry is composed of too many million dis- 

 tinct units (small producers) for one or two per- 

 sons to gain dominion. 



Profits that are strictly enormous can be made 

 from poultry only on paper; but skillful poultry- 

 men find it comparatively easy to make more money 

 from an investment of their own capital and labor 



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