I. ABUSES 



I expect this book to be criticized by those who hold 

 opposite views; it is difference of opinion that keeps life 

 from stagnating. 



To get at the facts of the causes of so many failures in 

 the poultry business I have gone directly to the bottom of 

 the whole question. 



In order to accomplish anything toward helping poultry- 

 men to obtain better living conditions — in order to accom- 

 plish anything toward reducing the enormous number of 

 failures — it is necessary to bring into this book certain con- 

 siderations of "big business" and politics. 



When I think of the money lost, the careers spoiled, the 

 misery that the 95% who are failures endure — among them 

 many old people who lose their last cent — I feel as though 

 I cannot ignore their suffering. Because I see such cases, 

 see people in want, in sorrow, in desperation, see the last 

 cent gone for food, see the end of their dream of a home, 

 see them penniless, homeless, and friendless and too old to 

 begin anew — I have been impelled to write this book in this 

 way. I am impelled to speak plainly of the things that cause 

 these failures, though in doing so I oppose the powerful 

 influences of "big 'business.'' 



MISLEADING POULTKY BOOKS AND FOULTBY 

 PAPEBS 



I am going to set forth a few facts as to how a large 

 number of people lose their savings through being misled by 

 what they read in the poultry books and poultry papers. 



