'So PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



tion to this the numbers that die or are killed for 

 poor quality, and those that reach maturity will 

 cost even more than is often contemplated For 

 these reasons, no one can sell a good stock bird for 

 less than $4 and get full cost; the profit, if any, 

 must come from those sold at higher prices. 



CAUSES OF FAILURE 



These conditions furnish the real reasons why so 

 many can make no money out of their stock. The 

 fowls are either regarded so poorly that they will 

 not sell for any value, or when well raised they sell 

 for less than it costs to produce them. Good stock 

 ■is always well worth full value, but when the pur- 

 chaser does pay this value he should get what he 

 pays for. 



He should ponder well the fact that the world 

 always did and always will put a premium upon 

 the best goods and the best things. Among the 

 thousands of breeders of standard-bred poultry very 

 few, comparatively, control the trade in high-priced 

 stock. These men stand for all that is really best 

 in the respective breeds they handle. They are 

 making money annually, while hundreds of breeders 

 are about playing even, and many not doing that. 

 These men have simply brought to their work a 

 fancier's love and instinct, and by careful and 

 systematic breeding have established strains of 

 fowls that are the best representation of the breeds. 



There is abundant room in this field for others. 

 The field will never be filled. It is the field wherein 

 is reaped the pleasure and the profit of standard- 

 bred poultry breeding; and, best of all, it is where 

 the fancier secures that satisfaction with self which 



