INTRODUCTION 



A short time ago I started to prepare a description of my 

 World's Best Poultry System. I had no idea of writing a 

 book, but as I looked around me and saw the miserable con- 

 dition of the poultry business, I found it impossible to produce 

 a catalogue in which this business should be praised to the 

 skies, and although I write this book at the expense of my 

 poultry system, I believe there is a greater need for a book of 

 this sort than there is for any poultry system. 



If a corporation owned my system and issued an elaborate 

 circular I believe it would realize very large sales, because I 

 am confident that my system is the biggest thing that has 

 ever been brought before the poultry men. Instead, however, 

 of putting my little capital into a fancy catalogue telling the 

 public of the millions that are to be made in the poultry 

 business by using my system, I am putting that capital into 

 this book, in which the other side of the poultry business is 

 revealed. 



By doing so I may keep some people out of the business and 

 lose some customers for my system. This is not a usual pro- 

 ceeding. I have been told that it will mean ruin to me in a 

 business way, but if this book falls into the hands of some 

 one and prevents him or her from losing the savings of a 

 lifetime by entering the poultry business with insufficient 

 knowledge of the risks it entails, I shall feel more than repaid 

 for any financial loss that I may suffer. 



I do not measure success by a money standard; to me 

 there is something higher than that. I believe this book will 

 do more good than any book that has ever been published 



