148 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



The outside interests, through their cooperation and organ- 

 ization, try to keep this profitable business. Through their 

 control of certain newspapers that go to your home and 

 which you read and which influence your mind, and in various 

 other ways, they contrive to keep you in ignorance of the 

 value of cooperation and organization, you persist in your 

 out-of-date methods of competition, and the outside interests 

 continue to profit. 



The complete and final solving of these three simple prob- 

 lems lies in state or government ownership, in the establish- 

 ment of a state Prodluce Exchange, State Feed Depots, and 

 State Cold Storage Plants. Therein would lie the final solu- 

 tion of these problems. And all other methods are mere 

 by-paths. 



Under State ownership a central distributing house should 

 be established in each district. To these central houses every 

 poultryman might ship his eggs and they would be distributed 

 for him at the actual cost of handling. The profit which he 

 now pays to the middleman would thus go into his own 

 pocket. 



Under State management, if the market in one place should 

 become overstocked, the eggs could be sent to some place 

 where the demand was greater. As there would be distribut- 

 ing points only where they were actually needed, an immense 

 amount of money would be saved and would go directly to 

 the producer and the consumer. 



Under State ownership and management of feed depots, 

 poultrymen would be able to obtain their poultry feeds at 

 cost, plus the cost of handling. They could buy a few sacks 

 and get them at carload rates. There would be only one feed 

 depot to support in each district instead of ten or more, as 

 is the case at the present time. The poultrymen may adopt 



