. Dollars and sense in the poultry business ... Poultry industry. Get More Eggs — Save Peed While he was engaged in managing this farm—the biggest poultry farm in the world at that time—the world war came on and the United States got into the fray. Every business felt it must have a representative) for its own industry at Washington, D. C. In fact, such co-operation was invited by the Government authorities. The poultry interests looked about to find a man of wide experience and whose acquaintance was broad. In Mr. Hicks they found that man and he was selected to go to Washington and repre- se
. Dollars and sense in the poultry business ... Poultry industry. Get More Eggs — Save Peed While he was engaged in managing this farm—the biggest poultry farm in the world at that time—the world war came on and the United States got into the fray. Every business felt it must have a representative) for its own industry at Washington, D. C. In fact, such co-operation was invited by the Government authorities. The poultry interests looked about to find a man of wide experience and whose acquaintance was broad. In Mr. Hicks they found that man and he was selected to go to Washington and repre- sent the poultry interests. An organization known as the National War Emergency Poultry Federation was formed and Mr. Hicks was elected Presi- dent. Mr. Hicks stayed at the National .Seat of Government as a volunteer worker until after peace was declared. From that time on Mr. Hicks was connected with prominent wholesalers of poultry products in Washington until shortly before he came to the American Poultry School. Mr. Hicks has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Coliseum Show for years. He has judged at such shows as New York, Pitts- burg, Philadelphia, Washington, D. C, Indianapolis, Allentown, Pa., Tren- ton, N. J., St. Louis and Kansas City, besides numerous others. It has been well said that Mr. Hicks knows poultry conditions in an actual practical way in every section of the country. He has always been actually engaged in raising poultry and running a farm with poultry on a large scale, even while, as he puts it, "Doing a little stunt writing for the ; On subjects like the day-old chick business, raising and brooding chicks, feeding flocks of laying hens on a big scale, marketing poultry and eggs, and many other practical sides of poultry production, there is no one in America with a broader experience at the actual work of doing the thing itself. What is more, he has the knack of telling others just how to suc- cessfully do the m
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