18 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



go so far as to build a poultry farm to draw on others. Others 

 go so far as to advertise that they have in their employ an 

 expert poultryman who will teach you the business. Is it 

 any wonder there are so many failures in the poultry business 

 when you realize how many people engage in it who are 

 utterly unfit for it? 



You have the poultry papers painting a lovely picture of 

 this business, and you have the real estate agents telling you 

 how you can make an easy living at it. Incubator companies 

 and a large number of poultry-food manufacturers, manufac- 

 turers of brooders and other poultry accessories put out 

 attractive pamphlets and catalogues, some of which are 

 works of art, and they all add their influence to get you 

 into the business. There are also the breeders of fine poultry 

 who issue catalogues with attractice pictures of their fine 

 birds, which, if you have any real interest for poultry, you 

 will want to own. There are the men who write poultry 

 books, who claim to make from $5.00 to $10.00 a year per hen, 

 and after you have read these things you are no ordinary 

 individual if you can resist them. 



You read of a little home in the country with chickens, 

 from which, if you will work hard, a good living may be 

 derived. Work? Why you may be willing to work night 

 and day to get away from the life in the city, from the uncer- 

 tainty of not knowing when you may lose your position, 

 from the fear of losing your health and being forced into the 

 poor house. You think of that "little home" with chickens 

 in the country, and instantly there arises before you a vision 

 of such a home and you determine to obtain one. You are 

 just like everyone else; we all have the same longings. You 

 are willing to work; why, you are willing to slave if you 

 could only own your own home where you would be working 

 for yourself and be your own master. You know that if you 



