146 EGGS AND POULTRY 
would be the plain proposition that the saving 
would be just the difference between the cost 
of producing by the farmer and the cost in 
the open market. From the way the 
farmer talks of his hard lot, the difference 
cannot be considerable. To my mind it is 
not sufficient to pay for the division of ener- 
gies and attention by which the poultry 
might suffer. 
We will agree that should a man have a 
large farm with fertile acres and a knowledge 
of farming, the necessary ‘capital, etc., he 
might save some money by growing his own 
feed in the same way that a manufacturer of 
clothes might make a little more money if 
he were also the manufacturer of the cloth 
that goes into the clothes; but this double 
business is no more necessary to the one than 
to the other, and few men are able to make 
a success of more than one business. 
