COMMEECIAL EGG FAKMING 



It has generally been assumed that eggs 

 cannot be marketed at a profit unless their 

 production is carried on as a subsidiary 

 branch of general farming. This assumption 

 rests on the fact that a large number of per- 

 sons, unfitted by experience and business 

 ability, or with insufficient capital at their 

 disposal have, after a few years' trial of 

 poultry farming, found themselves obliged to 

 discontinue their operations. If an inquiry 

 could be made into the previous business his- 

 tory of any one hundred persons who have 

 given up poultry farming, I believe it would 

 be found that ninety-nine of them had failed 

 in the undertakings in which they had pre- 

 viously embarked, and that many of them had 

 gone into poultry farming as a "last resort." 

 If a man were to go into any kind of busi- 

 ness as unequipped for its successful prosecu- 

 tion as the average man embarks upon poultry 

 farming, his end would be equally dismal. 

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