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146 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



sell for nearly three times that price in the fall and the 

 interests who produce nothing are making large sums, while 

 95% of the poultrymen fail. The interests, working between 

 the producer and the consumer, squeeze the last cent out of 

 both, and the greatest of all wonders is how the 5% manage 

 to make any money at all with such obsolete methods of 

 doing business. 



The poultrymen using competitive methods must sell their 

 eggs to the highest bidder and the bidders using cooperative 

 methods are not going to outbid one another for the sole 

 reason of helping the producer. As you do not provide any 

 way for relieving the market when it becomes over-supplied, 

 the outside interests step in and take care of the surplus. 

 The cheaper they can buy the eggs and the higher they can 

 sell them for, the more profit they make. By their superior 

 methods of cooperation they make millions, every cent of 

 which is taken from the producer and consumer. The poul- 

 trymen, on the other hand, by their unorganized methods 

 are losing millions. 



This is the first poultry book that has ever mentioned these 

 problems. 



I decline to fill this book with such things as what some 

 old woman did for a roupy hen when there are conditions 

 existing that cause the failure of 95% of the people who 

 engage in the poultry business. I want to get down to the real 

 facts, the real cause of these failures, and I find that the 

 greatest cause for failures is the poor business methods the 

 poultrymen are using. I wish to point the way for them to 

 overcome such injurious conditions. Why should anyone 

 pay you 20c for a dozen of eggs when they are to be had 

 for 15c? Would you do such a thing? Does not the 

 cooperative method that the large interests employ and the 



