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ness and courteous treatment accorded a customer; these are 

 values, more or less intangible, no doubt, but nevertheless potent. 

 Furthermore, the buying public is quick to appreciate them. 



Food Products. — Primarily, the poultryman should always 

 bear in mind that he is producing food products, not coal or iron 

 castings, consequently his wares have an esthetic appeal. There 

 is much agitation these days over sanitary conditions in factories 

 where food stuffs are made, and it is right that there should be ; 

 the slogan is cleanliness to a most exacting degree. We do not 



(Courtesy Monmouth Poultry Farm) 

 Fig- 55- — A centralized plant. 



look for purity in articles of food that are made in dirt-infested, 

 antiquated factory buildings, where the workers must toil amid 

 sordid conditions, — filth, improper ventilation and unhealthful 

 environments generally. Pure food commissions are empowered 

 to regulate these affairs. If it is important that milk should be 

 produced and sold under certain restrictions, it is also impor- 

 tant that poultry and eggs should be produced likewise. At 

 least the commercial aspects are the same. 



The buildings on a poultry farm, their yards and all the acces- 

 sories should be built with the idea of maintaining them in a 



