CHAPTER V1I1. 



FOR SITTERS IN MILD CLIMATES. 



According to the best method of managing sitters in 

 the region of mild winters, from which the bulk of poul- 

 try products is to come eventually, the house for sitters 

 needs no glazing and no siding, or very little siding, 

 but should have a good, tight, shingled roof to keep off 

 rain. In the belt of country where the trainloads and 

 shiploads of poultry, necessary to supply in the future 

 not a hundred millions, but hundreds of millions, of our 

 own people, and foreign lands as well, can be raised 

 most profitably, the climate permits poultry to roost in 

 trees the year round and do quite well, as has been 

 demonstrated for a century. 



In such a climate, with an enormous tract of prairie 

 joining it on the north, affording a supply incalculable 

 in quantity of the cheapest grain on earth, the cost of 

 producing poultry products is at the very minimum, and 

 even with cost of transportation added, it is still at the 

 minimum. In the redistribution of industries, com- 

 pelled by the laws of business competition laws as irre- 

 sistible as the attraction of gravitation a commodity 

 will always be produced, in the long run, at exactly the 

 most advantageous point. Therefore, at Kansas City, 

 or not more than a hundred or a few hundred miles 

 away, will be shipped yearly thousands of tons of poul- 

 try, alive or dressed, refrigerated, frozen, or canned. 



The buildings in Arkansas and Oklahoma will need 

 next to no siding at all, but in southern Kansas there 

 should be hinged or folding sides to be let down in win- 



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