4 COMMERCIAL EGG FARMING 



But one does not hear it said on all sides, for 

 instance, that the pawnbroking, the grocery, 

 and the drapery businesses do not pay, as one 

 does of poultry farming, but simply that such- 

 and-such person did not know his business or 

 had not sufficient capital. 



It is my opinion, based upon my own 

 practical experience, that poultry farming, 

 purely for egg production, can be made to 

 pay very good interest on the capital invested, 

 if carried out on business lines. My experi- 

 ence has been obtained and a very good 

 income gained from egg production during 

 the last ten years, both in America and in 

 England. 



I am not a poultry farmer because I like 

 hens or because I like the business, but simply 

 because I do not know how to earn an equal 

 income so easily in any other way. With 

 me it has been a strictly commercial under- 

 taking. If any other branch of farming had 

 shown me better opportunities I should prob- 

 ably have gone into it. 



It may be of interest to those who think 

 of taking up egg production as a business to 

 learn the reasons why I adopted this branch 



