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This will never do in the poultry business. There 

 are things that must be done today. Carelessness 

 spells ruin to a poultry plant. It has put more than 

 one poultry raiser on the list of the " has beens," 

 and diminished many a good sized bank roll. 



There have been failures in the poultry business, 

 but not any more in proportion than in any other 

 business. When a man fails in the poultry business 

 he immediately tells all his friends about his mis- 

 fortunes and condemns this vocation in the loudest 

 terms, and although he realizes his shortcomings 

 he becomes a full fledged member of the " Knockers' 

 Club." He tells of so and so also making a failure 

 of the business, but never mentions the countless 

 numbers who are making good in the same line. 



But the American hen goes on supplying the 

 breakfast table with its most popular victuals and 

 the dinner table with healthful and delicious meats 

 not tainted with lumpy jaw and tuberculosis. And 

 what is more, thousands upon thousands of farmers' 

 wives are clothing the entire family from the profits 

 of the hennery; thousands of large poultry plants 

 are making good dividends upon their investments, 

 and countless numbers of backyard poultry raisers 

 are supplying their tables with eggs and fowls 

 besides deriving therefrom some extra money in 

 addition to the salary earned from their regular 

 vocation. An industry which ranks next to corn 

 in dollars and cents, and then only partly figured, in 



