THE LAW OF PROGRESS 
surely be working against his own inter- 
ests. 
This may seem to be a cruel law, but 
it is nature’s law of progress, without 
which animal life could not evolve. If we 
could look upon death from a philosophi- 
cal standpoint, we would not see it as a 
curse, but as a blessing through which 
Nature takes back to her bosom all that 
are no longer able to wage the cruel war 
of existence. In other words, it is the law 
of the survival of the fittest. If we seek 
to violate this law in the slightest degree, 
in the poultry business, loss will be almost 
sure to follow. 
My advice is this: No matter how 
much labor it has cost to produce a bird, 
or how much money it has cost to buy it, 
if it is not capable, under sanitary condi- 
tions, of resisting disease, its blood should 
not be transmitted to the future genera- 
tions of your flock. 
Don’t doctor. You can spend a dollar’s 
worth of time and medicine on a fifty-cent 
bird before you know it, and you have 
not only lost your time and money, but, if 
you succeed in curing a sick bird and allow 
it to remain with your flock, it will trans- 
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