4 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



about the poultry business, and if it should cause a general 

 awakening among the poultry men it will do a good which 

 can never be measured by money. 



My objects in writing this book are: (1) To prevent people 

 with savings that have taken them a lifetime to acquire from 

 investing them in the poultry business under the delusion 

 that they will get rich quickly, and to save them from that 

 rude awakening which comes with the vanishing of their 

 capital. (2) To show those who are in the business how, by 

 using poor and out-of-date business methods and by their 

 failure to co-operate — especially in politics — the profits that 

 rightfully belong to them as producers go into the pockets 

 of a few rich men, who produce nothing, but whose better 

 business methods and control of politics enable them to take 

 most all the profits. (3) To expose the various frauds that 

 are practiced in connection with the poultry business. (4) To 

 bring before the reader a record of my experience in the care 

 and particularly in the feeding of poultry. (S) To deal with 

 the housing of poultry as a science and bring it to a perfect 

 state of development. (6) To show how the roup may be 

 prevented. (7) To bring before the public my poultry system. 



I have dwelt herein upon the failures I have had in order 

 to show the poultry business in its least favorable light and 

 to right the wrongs that have been done by other poultry 

 books — books that paint such a brilliant picture of the poul- 

 try business that many from reading them get "poultry fever,'' 

 a very common disease which is usually fatal to your pocket- 

 book. 



At least 95 per cent of those who go into the poultry busi- 

 ness fail. Do not forget that I have a poultry system to sell, 

 but if this book brings you to realize what a small chance 

 you have to succeed and saves you from losing your life's 

 savings and from years of misery and poverty, I shall feel 



