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THE THEEE GEEATEST PROBLEMS FOB THE POULTEYMAN 



While the feeding and housing of poultry are problems, as 

 is the roup also, there are three other great problems which 

 the poultrymen have to solve before the poultry business can 

 become the safe investment that it should be for the poor 

 man, and which he is led to believe it is. Unless the poultry- 

 men solve these problems, there is always that danger of 

 failure which every poultryman has to face. If he continues 

 to allow conditions to exist which permit others, through 

 their being able to control the price of eggs, to reduce the 

 price of eggs in the spring — at which time it actually costs 

 more to produce them than they will bring — he cannot hope 

 to succeed. He must solve these problems and these condi- 

 tions must be changed, in order that there shall be the 

 same security from failure in the poultry business that there 

 is in other businesses. 



These three great problems are: 



First. — To devise a better method of distributing eggs and 

 poultry. 



Second. — To reform the poultry-feed business. 



Third. — To control the market and cold storage plants. 



The distribution and buying of the poultrymen is so unbusi- 

 nesslike that if the evidence of their out-of-date methods were 

 not to be seen on every hand it would be impossible to 

 make anyone with the slightest business training believe 

 that a business in which there are many bright men engaged 

 could ever continue to use such methods. No greater folly 

 than the retaining of these crude methods, which result in 

 the failure of 95% of those who engage in the poultry busi- 

 ness, can be conceived. If there exists a poorer method of 

 doing business than one which causes the failure of 95% of 

 those who engage in it and threatens the other 5% with 

 failure at all times, it would be hard to say what it is. 



