Personal Experiences S3 



the poultry business. If I had only known this before, how 

 many disappointments in my life would have been avoided! 



I thought now "If this is the cause of my failures, how 

 many other failures has it caused?" "Is not one's success in 

 the poultry business to be measured by one's knowledge of 

 these variations and by one's ability to use them to 

 advantage?" 



This is not necessarily true in all cases, because a man may 

 sometimes make a success by accident, especially if his hens 

 run on soft, rich ground. But are not these variations 

 accountable for the fact that when one moves from one place 

 to another, using grains differing in protein, one may make 

 a failure in one place and succeed in another? Is this not 

 the reason that some people do very well in the poultry 

 business for a while and then lose money rapidly, so that in 

 a short time you see a "For Sale" sign on their property? 

 They get grains and feed, a ration recommended by an experi- 

 ment station, and the grains they use have about the same 

 protein as those used by the station. Later, in a different 

 shipment, the grain varies and they do not know why they 

 do not get the same results. Such a thing may easily put 

 one on the wrong track. One begins to feed some other 

 kind of feed and keeps on this wrong track until failure 

 ensues. At the end they know no more about the poultry 

 business than the day they began. 



Is not the existence of such variations the reason why 

 some people cannot raise poultry at all, although they closely 

 follow the system advocated by the experiment stations? 



Does this not explain why experiment stations do not agree 

 on rations, since they may all be working with grains which 

 differ in protein? 



Why is there no one best poultry ration? 



Why do no two men feed alike? 



