14 AN EGG FARM. 



daily, on system, and freshness of product guaranteed 

 absolutely before put in cold storage. 



The cold storage feature will, in the future, dominate 

 in fixing the areas for the production of a large and 

 increasing proportion of the enormous quantities of 

 poultry products which our hundreds of millions of peo- 

 ple yet to be will consume. The great packing houses 

 for beef and pork at the principal cities of the middle 

 west have grown with wonderful rapidity to a colossal 

 size, pointing out the belt of country where animal food 

 can be produced at the greatest advantage. Dressed 

 poultry is already kept and transported from the trans- 

 Mississippi region on an immense scale, by the same 

 means as beef and pork, in the carcass, besides being 

 canned, the principal operators being at Kansas City ; 

 but all that has been done, thus far, in this line is but 

 as a drop in the bucket. The big eastern and northern 

 cities will be supplied more and more in the future with 

 poultry products from the southwest ; particularly from 

 southern Kansas, northern Texas, southern Missouri, 

 Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Arkansas, although 

 southeastern Nebraska, southwestern Iowa, and all of 

 the area tributary to Kansas City will contribute to the 

 immense volume of eggs and. poultry which that great 

 southwestern paradise of fowls will produce. 



THE KIND OF SOIL. 



The soil should be adapted to cultivation. Those 

 who advocate a waste or sterile tract make a great mis- 

 take. Every rood should be capable of cultivation, and 

 rocky or bushy land avoided. Shade may be artificially 

 provided at a small cost in a manner to be hereafter 

 described. It is necessary to raise crops, in order to get 

 the full advantage of the manure. It exceeds in value 

 that made by any other domestic animal, because it is 

 from rich food more thoroughly digested than is the 



