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than can be afforded by sites near at hand. Just as 

 early fruits and vegetables have, within a few years, 

 comparatively, been raised in prodigious quantities at 

 the south for shipment to New York, Boston, Chicago 

 and other northern markets, under a regular organized 

 system of gigantic proportions, we may look, in a short 

 time, for something on a correspondingly large scale in 

 the movements of poultry products. By seeking a 

 milder climate, the construction of expensive winter 

 shelters and the cost of fuel for warming them and 

 carrying on artificial hatching and rearing, may be 

 avoided. 



The climate of the Gulf states, and of all the extreme 

 south, will never be as favorable for poultry as the 

 region of the latitude of North Carolina or southern 

 Kansas. The high trans-Missouri plains, owing to the 

 prevailing dryness and great purity of the air, afford the 

 best sites for poultry farms in the whole country, the 

 southern portion of this great area being the best. In 

 all the region from the Dakotas to northern Texas, 

 fowls of all kinds thrive amazingly. It is easier to raise 

 a forty-five pound turkey in Nebraska than a thirty-five 

 pound turkey in New England, from the same strain. 

 Southern Kansas and vicinity, where winters are less 

 severe than further north, lessening expense, as popula- 

 tion increases in the cities of the northeast and of the 

 extreme south, where the climate is unfavorable for 

 poultry, and as railroad lines are multiplied, running 

 north and south between British America and the Texas 

 Gulf coast, will become the best locality in the United 

 States and in the world for the raising of poultry prod- 

 ucts in prodigious quantities. Grain is cheaper in this 

 region than in any other, and is likely to remain so for 

 a long time. 



Unless the proportion of freight rates should be mate- 

 rially altered, which is unlikely, it will continue to cost 



