PROGRESSIVE POULTRY RAISING 



Progressive Poultry Raising 



William A. Lippincott 



Professor of Poultry Husbandry 



Kansas State Agricultural College 



A FARM without poultry is unusual. In early days 

 a home without it was just as much so. With the 

 growth of the towns and cities, the development of 

 the refrigerator car and of the egg-packing industry, with 

 its cold storage facilities, the town and city dwellers came 

 to depend upon the people of the open country for the 

 production of poultry and eggs. 



In the beginning the farmer or his wife simply sold 

 the surplus from the flock which supplied the family 

 needs. This is still largely true, though the size of the 

 flock has grown and the surplus has increased as the 

 prices for poultry products have risen. Fowls have 

 received increasing recognition as a means of marketing 

 waste grains, grasshoppers and other insects. 



Unfortunately for consumptive demand the produc- 

 tion of poultry and eggs is largely seasonal. The bulk 

 of the year's lay comes between the first of February and 

 the first of August in most states-; ; p?be poultry ^rrop 

 comes to market between the first* 6^ e August ansl the 

 holidays, yet people need these hi 

 the year round. It is artificial ^i- 

 it possible for the farmer to sell eggs in April and live 

 poultry in November at prices that are profitable, and 

 for city folks to buy eggs in December and broilers in 

 February at prices which are not prohibitive. - The 

 cold storage houses are the cellars of the cities. 



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