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is a law which compels them to sell, but there is no law to 

 regulate price. Mr. Lloyd has been cutting into the trade 

 of other feed dealers and this has hurt business. The mer- 

 chants, using cooperative methods, have warned the mills 

 that if they sell to Lloyd they will boycott their flour and 

 other products all over the State. Under this threat the 

 mills refuse to sell to Lloyd for fear of being put out of 

 business themselves. These are the conditions that exist 

 in California today. At this writing Mr. Lloyd is trying to 

 get the poultrymen to cooperate and form a large stock com- 

 pany. If this plant is successful, mills will be installed to 

 grind and mix the food, but Mr. Lloyd is being fought with 

 such determination by "big business" through a lack of 

 cooperation by the poultrymen whom he is helping. 



Some of the biggest interests in America are interested 

 in the cold storage problem, and as they are in it for profit 

 only they buy eggs as cheap as possible in the spring and 

 sell as high as possible in the fall. Last year when hens were 

 laying an abundance of eggs, the price was so low that they 

 were produced at a loss. These were the actual conditions 

 existing last spring, and in the face of these facts can you 

 ask if there is money in the poultry business under such 

 conditions. What do you think of the poultry books which 

 are being read by old people and which lead them to believe 

 that they can make from $4.00 to $6.00 a year per hen? 



This book and my poultry system would probably sell far 

 better were I to lead you to believe that you could get rich 

 quickly by using my system. This is probably the first book 

 ever published advising people not to go into a business when 

 the author of the book has for sale what he believes to be 

 the best appliances and methods in the world for use in that 

 business. It takes all kinds of people, however, to make a 

 world, and I am the one who says, "Down with poultry 



