LOCATION. 



When a lot is mixed with lots from other farms, its 

 individuality is lost ; if good, it may only be helping to 

 sell the poor article of somebody else, and the producer 

 does not reap the benefits of his pains in increased cus- 

 tom. No produce can be supplied to city dwellers to 

 better mutual advantage to seller and buyer, than new 

 laid eggs delivered direct, the dubious ones in the mar- 

 ket causing much loss and vexation. 



Poultry farms, at the west, have the benefits of cheap 

 land and cheap grain ; and at the south the season is 

 earlier, and on the Atlantic coast, especially, cheap 

 transportation by water is available. But the value of 

 manure in some places at the north is so great, that it is 

 more economical to bring grain here from the west than 

 eggs, the latter being so troublesome to send by rail. 

 Butchers' waste, procured fresh, being almost absolutely 

 necessary, is an important consideration in favor of 

 proximity to a city. When it is seen that high prices 

 for eggs depend on the latter being produced near by 

 and delivered fresh, and that the labor is no greater to 

 raise them close by the market than at a distance at 

 lower prices, with a deduction for transportation and 

 breakage, it will be readily seen that there are certain 

 special advantages in a location near a big northern city. 



The site should not be far from a railroad freight 

 depot or wharf. The amount of western grain needed 

 is large. Hauling this many miles by team is too costly. 

 Enriching wornout northern farms by feeding out grain 

 from the prairies, is an indirect way of importing their 

 rich mold. Therefore, we take care that this importa- 

 tion is judiciously contrived. A mill near by, for grind- 

 ing, is desirable. A tract of arable land may be found 

 (though rarely), surrounded on all sides by either woods, 

 swamps or rocky pastures, so that there need be no dan- 

 ger that the fowls will stray into tilled fields of adjoin- 

 ing proprietors. In case such a farm could be procured, 



