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because you consider the writer a successful poultryman, but ^ 

 most successful poultrymen are too busy making a success 

 to spend time writing for papers. 



A short time ago a writer for a poultry paper which 

 printed columns of his writings — believed to be authoritative 

 no doubt 'by thousands of subscribers — was offered the man- 

 agement of one of the finest poultry farms in the United 

 States. He accepted the offer, but in a short time the farm 

 deteriorated into a bad condition and he resigned. He is 

 never heard from now. If he had not made the mistake 

 of accepting the management of the farm and had stuck 

 strictly to writing and to telling other people what to do, 

 he might still be writing for a poultry paper and might have 

 become famous. 



You take up a poultry paper and read of how Mary Smith -/ 

 dipped her hens' heads in coal oil or gave them quinine pills 

 for roup, and how they all got well; or how she fed them 

 on cayenne pepper and green onions because they were 

 cheap, and how they laid so well that thereafter she never 

 fed them anything else. That is the kind of rubbish that 

 some poultry papers publish. It is that kind of trash that 

 frequently causes people to practice inhumane treatment on 

 dumb fowls. It is such articles as these that hinder you from 

 learning correct methods. 



The poultry papers, month after month and year after year, 

 devote columns and pages to articles written by men whose 

 experience is limited to a few hens in a back yard and who 

 do not have to depend on them for a living. These articles 

 are not only absolutely valueless to you, but are positively 

 harmful; to every poultryman with experience they are 

 ridiculous. 



Year after year 95% of those who go into the poultry busi- 

 ness fail. Millions of dollars are lost, thousands of careers 



