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 ‘‘ 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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