Personal Experiences 55 



thinking, not hard working. The work should be made a 

 pleasure, not a drudgery. Machinery should work, not men. 



One great fault about the poultry business is that there is 

 too much muscle in it now. It is hard work as it is con- 

 ducted today and it is not a very encouraging prospect to 

 take up. Thirty dollars per month does not look like much 

 to most people, 'but by using up-to-date methods, and with 

 the feeding pf poultry and poultry foods thoroughly under- 

 stood, it will not require hard work and the man that can 

 get results is going to command a good salary. 



The difficulty lies in not thoroughly understanding the 

 variations in grains. It is this which is responsible for many 

 of the failures in the poultry business — a fact which is 

 clearly shown in this book. I should like to see every man 

 who feeds poultry, whether he is on an experiment-station 

 farm or on a poultry farm, make investigations along this 

 line on his own account. The facts that will be obtained 

 will be of enormous benefit to the poultry industry. I believe 

 also that the facts so learned will be of inestimable value 

 to the human race, because when this problem is thoroughly 

 understood mankind will benefit as much from it as will 

 poultry; there is not, as a matter of fact, very much difference 

 between the two. We put ''rocks" in our pockets, whereas 

 chickens put them in their gizzards. 



I believe that we are coming to the large intensive poultry 

 farm. This seems to be the goal. I believe it will prove to 

 be a big success before long. You must creep before you 

 can walk, but to operate a large farm successively will require 

 intelligent men, hard thinkers with a great deal pf experience 

 and a thorough understanding of grain variations, feeding 

 and housing. If there is such a variation' m 1 * brans, that 

 opposite results will be obtained from their use when all 

 other conditions are alike, there must also be just as great 



