10 EGGS AND POULTRY 
the advance in living expenses. But how 
about the cost of food stuffs—have they ad- 
vanced? You know to your sorrow that 
milk, butter, eggs, meat and all other farm 
products have kept climbing up ‘in price. 
How can it be otherwise when 99 out of 100 
young men choose the life of the consumer 
rather than the life of the producer. Prices 
will remain high in spite of “trust busting” 
and lower tariff which, however, may have 
some slight effect toward a reduction. Until 
more young men realize the opportunities 
awaiting them in the food producing lines 
the trend of prices will be upward rather than 
downward. 
The young men, who, seeing the oppor- 
tunities, studying and gaining all the knowl- 
edge they can from others and then entering 
these fields of production, will be at least as 
well off at the end of five or ten years as their 
fellows who selected the occupations offered 
by the city. 
Last but not least of the favorable features 
of the poultry business is health. It is a 
great question whether it was God’s plan to 
have the cities of vast population, with 
palaces and hovels, great hotels and apart- 
ment houses, gigantic office buildings, fac- 
