A Living from Eggs and Poultry 
CHAPTER I 
THE POULTRY BUSINESS 
So much is now being said of the poultry 
business; so many articles are being contri- 
buted to the various papers giving exper- 
iences of some persons who have made good 
profits from small backyard flocks of hens; 
so many advertisements are daily appearing 
in the magazines using the successes of the 
business, to boom the sale of farms, poultry 
appliances, day old chicks, etc.; and so many 
alluring accounts of wonderful, immense 
poultry farms making thousands of dollars 
a year profit, that a large proportion of our 
population must believe the easy road to 
prosperity is in keeping poultry. 
I am by no means a pessimist, but I believe 
as do all these interested writers and adver- 
tisers, that there is money in chickens: not 
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