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barrels of it or a gold mine, but a living, 
good or bad according to the man himself 
who develops the business. But I also be- 
lieve it is time that some one should give to 
the public the facts as he finds them in estab- 
lishing a business with 1000 hens—a plant 
such as the average man would think to be of 
fair size. 
I love the business, but believe I can help 
the poultry industry more by giving the facts 
as I have seen them, as they have been driven 
home to me, as, after having read and 
planned and worked, I have either failed or 
succeeded, than by exaggerating these facts 
or referring to the large successful plants of 
years development and large investment. 
The latter methods: of description too often 
infer that any one can at once do the same as 
the owners of these plants did only after 
years of experience. 
What has been done can be done again. 
A man can set his ambition as high as he will, 
the higher the better provided he keeps his 
feet on earth, realizing that there are many 
steps between his beginning and the realiza- 
tion of his hopes and ambitions. It is those 
first steps, (which perhaps for more than one 
reason the average advertising chicken book 
