152 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



books! Down with poultry systems! Let us have the truth]" 



The American public loves to be swindled, and many will 



not like this book because it does not fill your mind up with 



air-bubbles that are bound to burst. But it may keep that 



money of yours in the bank to be used in your day of need. 



V^ Don't you think it is about time that the poultry papers 



stopped publishing what Mary Smith did to straighten the 



toe of her pet hen and all such rubbish and get down to the 



real business of helping you? After reading this book are 



you still going to be interested in columns of rubbish by 



people who, with backyard poultry experience, write for the 



poultry papers? Or are you going to demand that the papers 



wake up and help you solve problems that are of the greatest 



importance to you and on which your very existence depends? 



/Don't you think it is about time they threw off the yoke? 



7* ou are wasting your time reading backyard poultry articles. 



Demand articles that vitally concern your success. 



In 1913 a large number of poultrymen reduced the size of 

 their flock on account of the low price of eggs and poultry 

 farms without number were abandoned because they were 

 producing eggs at a loss, and this in the best part of the 

 laying season. What disappointments there must have been 

 for those people who had the "little home" idea! 



The big interests, learning long ago that competition was 

 a very wasteful method of doing business, began to cooperate 

 and in every business where they have cooperated improve- 

 ment was shown. They have cooperated in the cold storage 

 business and you do not see them bidding against one 

 another for your eggs. In business competition means extinc- 

 tion, cooperation means life. By forcing high prices in the 

 fall and low prices in the spring, the interests have the pro- 

 ducer and consumer at their mercy and, as everyone knows, 

 "big business" is heartless. 



