A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



wooded. Perhaps fifty yards down the slope 

 was a clearing where stone had been exca- 

 vated years before, leaving about an acre 

 of shale-covered ground backed with rocks 

 twenty feet high at the summit, and sloping 

 down at the sides to the natural contour of 

 the mountain. In the pre-commercial days 

 the small flock of turkeys which were left 

 almost entirely to their own devices found 

 this rock-sheltered spot, adopted it as a breed- 

 ing ground, nesting in the brush and rearing 

 such a goodly number of youngsters season 

 after season, that when repeated poor crops 

 made the farmer resolve to turn his attention 

 to poultry farming, he wisely allowed himself 

 to be guided by the old bird's instinct, and 

 adapted the chosen land to growing require- 

 ments rather than risk moving the stock to 

 other, personally more convenient, quarters. 

 Some half acre of the ground was enclosed 

 with wire netting and divided into three 

 immense yards in which strange birds were 

 to be controlled and young reared. 



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