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feeding poultry can be grown more cheaply on the farm 

 than it or a substitute can be bought on the market. 



There will also be opportunity to decide as to the 

 growing of such leguminous crops as field peas, cow 

 peas, soya beans, clovers, alfalfa, etc., to take the place 

 at least in part, ef beef scraps or other expensive pro- 

 tein feed stuffs to be used in balancing the starchy 

 grain feed stuffs. 



The poultryman should consider the crops demanded 

 by his available markets and how their culture will 

 combine with poultry keeping. 



He will further study their adaptations to his land, 

 climate, the resources and equipment of his farm and 

 his own capabilities in managing the culture of such 

 crops in conjunction with poultry farming. 



Where the flocks can have free range or yards of 

 very large size it is desirable that a part of the land 

 should be in grass, clover, alfalfa, growing grain or 

 other crops suitable for supplying green food to the 

 fowls. 



If shade is not provided by trees, it should be fur- 

 nished in mid-summer by crops or plants such as Indian 

 corn, broom corn, sorghum, Kafir " corn, sunflowers, 

 hemp, castor beans, pole beans, asparagus, raspberry or 

 blackberry bushes, grape vines, etc. 



ROTATION OF CROPS AND POULTRY 



Suggestions have already been given in Chapter IX 

 for the rotation of crops in cultivating single, double 

 and triple yards. 



It is practicable to arrange a rotation of crops and 

 poultry on the general farm. 



The flocks are colonized on successive parts of the 

 farm in rotation with the regular crops. 



For the sake of illustration suppose the chief crops 

 grown on the farm are grain, Indian corn, grass and 

 clover and potatoes. Suppose further that the farm 

 contains one hundred and fifty acres of land, ten acres 

 being allowed for the farmstead, orchards, gardens and 



