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enterprises. Thus the poultry business will cease to be con- 

 sidered a joke from a financial point of view. The watch- 

 word will not be "work hard" but "hard thought." 



The author of this book has put aside indirection. He has 

 burned his bridges behind him. He cannot go backwards 

 and must therefore go forward. No manufacturers of poultry- 

 nostrums, no poultry book or poultry paper, no real estate 

 agent, no feed dealer, no middleman, and no paper of the 

 daily press influenced by "big business" will have one word 

 of praise for this book, or for my poultry system, but on the 

 contrary will use every possible influence against them. You 

 will not see my name in the papers, and whether my book 

 and my system ever succeed depends on you. No one else 

 but you is going to help me. 



If you like this book, get your neighbor to buy it and by 

 doing so help its author and hasten the day for justice to 

 triumph. Ifc you do not like this book, tell your neighbor 

 about it and prevent him from spending his money because 

 he may need it more than I do. You will be doing him a 

 good turn, and I believe you owe it to humanity to help him. 



In closing I will say that, to me, there is something more 

 valuable than selling real estate, more important than writing 

 for poultry papers or writing poultry books, more important 

 than selling poultry systems and chicken houses, and that is 

 the welfare of the human race. 



It is more important that we provide houses for human 

 beings to live in, that we provide conditions under which 

 every one can own his own home. It is more important to 

 feed the human baby than to feed the baby chick. That is 

 the all-important thing on which we should unite — the weak 

 and the strong, the poor and the rich — to establish on this 

 earth a system of industrial and social justice for all men, 

 women, and children regardless of race, color or creed. By 



