V. CONCLUDING REMARKS 



If I have taken pains to show you the other side of the 

 poultry business, I do not want you to think that there is no 

 money in it under any circumstances. What I want you to 

 know is that you must understand it and understand it 

 thoroughly, or you can make nothing at it. If you do under- 

 stand the business, you do not need me to tell you what to 

 do. You may know more about it than I do. 



Those people who understand the poultry business some- 

 times make money at it in spite of the handicap of present 

 conditions, but their number is small. Most of these people 

 started in on a small scale and now they have a large 

 business, about the success of which there is no question. 

 In a certain locality you can ride for miles and miles and see 

 nothing but white chickens — farm after farm with nothing 

 but chickens. The proprietors have no other way of making 

 a living and they make it from hens. 



To me the future of the poultry business appears very 

 bright. Large ranches are rapidly being cut up into small 

 farms, the people are rapidly waking up and will no longer 

 allow unjust conditions to exist. Meat is gradually getting 

 scarcer, poultry will have to supply the deficiency with eggs 

 and chickens. With a more equable method of distribution 

 rapidly approaching, the poultry business offers a field of 

 enormous proportions for the investment of capital and holds 

 out inducements to intelligent young men who will study 

 the business, make of it a science, and by using up-to-date 

 and businesslike methods put it on an equality with other 



