14 PKOFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



business hen, the output of eggs is several hundred 

 carloads a year. 



Every development in the poultry industry has 

 had its origin in the clear thinking and right appli- 

 cation of the thought of some pioneer individual. 

 "Without exception this man or woman has been 

 jeered at as a crank, but later has had the sincere 

 flattery of imitation paid to him or to her. Then 

 the imitators have benefited and through them the 

 community also. 



To sum the matter up. The steadily increasing 

 demand for the highest grades of eggs and poultry 

 ■should encourage every one to raise better fowls. 

 It should stimulate every one to adopt better 

 methods of management so the market poultry will 

 be well developed and well prepared for the markets, 

 and so the pullets and hens will begin to lay by mid- 

 October and thus catch the late fall and winter 

 markets with a supply of fresh eggs. It should 

 prompt every one to discard the bad method of al- 

 lowing young poultry to shift for itself and the other 

 bad method of holding eggs in ordinary farm cellars 

 and country stores, thus lowering the quality and 

 the price. It should suggest the advantages wher- 

 ever possible of aiming either singly or in co-opera- 

 tion with neighbors to supply some special channel 

 with the highest grade of well-developed, well- 

 dressed poultry and new-laid eggs so as to catch 

 the highest prices. There is unlimited demand for 

 the best and unlimited opportunity to improve. 



