What Los Angeles Poultrymen Have Accomplished 151 



when the capital is on hand to buy in quantity, otherwise there is 

 nothing to be gained for either party. 



Baby Chick Business. — This has been one of the Association special- 

 ties. The baby chicks come from the members of the Association 

 who are able to give good strong chicks, and there has been an almost 

 unlimited number sold. They guarantee a full count of live chicks 

 delivered at the express office of the purchaser. That is going a little 

 farther than most shippers will do, so they have worked up a big 

 trade. 



New Place of Business. — In order to get more room for expansion, 

 the Association closed a five-year lease on a large three-story building 

 and basement at 324-330 Los Angeles Street. The building has a 

 frontage of fifty feet on Los Angeles Street and one hundred and 

 twenty feet on Boyd Street, with a 220 feet good cement alley in the 

 rear with good sun exposure and room for advertising. 



In this new place with over 24,000 square feet of floor room they 

 are going to grow. There will be plenty of room for all poultry sup- 

 plies, for feed, a general sales room for all kinds of live poultry, baby 

 chicks, brooders, incubators, etc., and the third floor will be given over 

 to the market poultry. Battery coops will be installed, for fattening 

 birds not ready for killing, and caring for shipments until sold. 



Amount Subscribed to Date. — The most astounding feature of the 

 whole thing is that with the small beginning of $500, in a little over 

 two years, and sailing against adverse winds a greater part of the 

 time, there is at present, August 31, 1914, the sum of $129,000 sub- 

 scribed on the book and a great portion of it paid in. Membership is 

 $10 per 100 hens for stock subscriptions, which may be paid for 

 monthly, at the rate of one cent per hen a month for ten months. 



The Association expects soon to be able to pay dividends, but at 

 present all money is needed for expansion. "Mind Your Own Busi- 

 ness" is the Association's motto. 



The information given above is absolutely correct and comes from 

 headquarters. There are many more interesting phases of co-operation 

 that might be gone into, but this one instance of what has been done 

 in such a little time, in one of the worst commission-ridden cities of 

 California, ought to be sufficient to induce every poultryman in the 

 whole State to join hands and work for the mutual benefit for all. 



