CHAPTER VIII. 



GREEN PASTURES AND A CO-OPERATIVE 

 POULTRY DEPOT. 



From the poor moorland holdings of Wessex 

 it is delightful to enter a rich pastoral county 

 which has been one of the most progressive 

 counties in the poultry industry since the 

 passing of the 1907 Act. In this county we 

 see what amazing results may be achieved by 

 co-operative methods in poultry-keeping, even 

 where the soil is unfavourable. 



Amid these green pastures we find a 

 prosperous co-operative poultry depot, which 

 of its kind is unique. One would expect to 

 find such an institution on the light, sandy 

 soil of Heathfield, in Sussex, so favourable to 

 the rearing and fattening of table birds, but 

 hardly in the heart of green Somerset, on cold 

 retentive clay pastures where the lias stone, 



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