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LL550NS IN POULTRY KEEPING SECOND SLRILS. 



plant and paid roundly for "expert" advice at every turn. He soon found that in order to get 

 anything at all out of the plant he must give it his personal attention, and the farm was kept 

 going for several years on this basis. Meantime the son died, and the father, to whom the 

 plant was now of no use, was glad to sell it for a small part of its cost. 



Perhaps thirty years ago the son of a New England farmer, arriving at an age when enter- 

 prising young men begin to plan very seriously their life work, concluded to try what he could 

 do with pouJtry. He began on his father's farm, and with a cash loan to give him a start. 

 He worked for his father for his board, and to repay the loan, while getting his stock estab- 

 lished. Beginning as a practical poultryman, he became interested in exhibition stock, was 

 very successful in breeding it, was an excellent salesman, and in a few years built up a business 

 ranking among the largest in the country. As his trade in tine poultry grew he 'dropped the 

 market side, and gave all attention to the lines that were giving hint greatest profit. He has 

 prospered in business. A few }ears ago he said to a group of' friends to whom he had just 



While Leghorn Chicks on Farm of H. J. Blanchard, Groton, N. Y. 



shown a business block he had recently completed in a town near his home, "This is my provision 

 for my family in case I am taken away. This building will give them a comfortable income.'' 

 Years ago I heard him sy that while he had found poultry keeping profitable, he believed that 

 any man who could make money at poultry could make more money at something else. 



Eight or ten years ago a traveling man bought a farm in New Jersey, and put a good sized 

 poultry plant on it. Immediately marvelous tales of its success began to be circulated. Hi 

 detailed statements of results showed how easy it was to make money with poultry if only you 

 had the personal equipment which everyone who thinks of starting supposes he has. In a very 

 short time the remarkable success of the plant on the established scale indicated such great profits 

 from larger operations that he easily interested capital in his schemes, and the farm was made 

 one of the show farms of America. People came from far and near to see it. The poultry 

 press generally gave it extended write-ups. Then all at qnce the promoter disappeared, and 

 those who bad furnished the capital put the concern into bankruptcy. 



