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$4223.00 PROFIT IN ONE YEAR 



CHAPTER XI 



OPPORTUNITY IN POULTRY 



THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY 



>HE hen has surely made wonderful strides 

 during the past few years. The value of the 

 products of the hen is greater than the value 

 of the entire wheat crop. In 1900 the 

 chicken industry started upward with leaps 

 and bounds, keeping up such a fast pace 

 that today it is only surpassed in value by 

 the corn, hay, and cotton. The Government 

 reports place the products of the hen at over one billion 

 dollars annually. The day is not far distant when the poul- 

 try industry will be a two billion dollar industry and will 

 lead the live stock and grain growing industries of the 

 country. 



The ordinary prophet cannot tell with any degree of cer- 

 tainty what she will do in the future. There has never been 

 a time when the demand for fresh eggs and dressed poultry 

 was so great. When the price of fresh eggs goes up to sixty 

 or sixty-five cents a dozen, we wonder who will buy them. 

 But still they sell, and the demand is greater than the supply. 

 There seems to be a market in all the large cities for more 

 fresh eggs than can be obtained during the Winter months, 

 when the prices are the highest. There does not seem to be 

 any limit to the demand. Prices have increased about 50 per 

 cent during the past ten years. People are beginning to be- 

 lieve that it is better to eat more eggs, even at a high price, 

 than so much meat. There has never been such a demand for 

 pure bred stock and hatching eggs from standard bred poul- 

 try as at the present time. The prices that good birds bring 



