THE POULTRY BUSINESS — 9 
will affect this market or the price at which 
they were sold? This is a billion dollar a year 
industry you contemplate entering. For some 
years at least, you need not worry about mar- 
ket and price, at any rate, not until the 
movement of young men is toward the coun- 
try rather than the city. This rapid growth 
of the cities out of proportion to the de- 
velopment of the country is the main factor 
causing high prices. 
Each year by the thousands young men 
are turned out by the schools and colleges 
to face a business career for which they are 
supposed to have been preparing, and each 
year these thousands find it more and more 
difficult to obtain lucrative positions, because 
of that never failing law of supply and de- 
mand. This is the very law that adds to the 
chances of success of the poultryman, be- 
cause, as the cities fill up with their vast 
populations which have to be fed, so the op- 
portunities of the poultry business increase. 
The wages or the salaries of the men we 
speak of—not mechanics, who partly 
through their labor unions and _ partly 
through the young men selecting profes- 
sions or clerical work, have had increased 
wages—have not advanced in proportion to 
