88 POULTRY FOR PROFIT 
is the cry all over the country now among the 
farming population. ‘The various agricultural 
agencies that have heretofore spent consider¬ 
able time and effort in teaching the farmer to 
raise a large quantity of good products, have 
apparently accomplished this result, and now 
these same agencies are trying to organize the 
the farmers into selling their products so that 
they can receive a higher price for them. 
The farmer usually has no time to devote to 
the special marketing of his crop, as he is too 
busy raising farm products, so attempts at co¬ 
operative marketing have been made. There 
have been many failures in this method in the 
past, but now the farmer realizes that this sys¬ 
tem is really his only salvation, and he is re¬ 
ceiving the idea of co-operation in a better mood 
than he did in the past. However, for the one 
living in town, with but a small flock of birds, 
more time can usually be devoted to this end 
of the business, with splendid returns. Many 
town lot poultry keepers can sell all the eggs 
that they can get just around to their neigh¬ 
bors, who are usually glad to pay a little more 
than the market price for the assurance that 
