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land wholly unsuitable for cultivation. All things con- 

 sidered the most desirable land for a poultry farm is usually 

 either light new land that when cleared will be suitable for 

 tillage, or worn out tillage land. On either of these the 

 poultry can be run much longer without change than on a 

 rich soil or one that has been for some time in a good state 

 of cultivation. Such lands are comparatively low priced, 

 while if properly handled for poultry their value for other 

 purposes may be so much increased that in the event of 

 its becoming desirable for the poultryman to change his 

 location he can get a fair price for his farm for farming 

 purposes ; while if he had established himself on land as 

 unsuitable for growing crops of any kind as many of the 

 poultry farms are, he would either have to remain there or 

 sacrifice his land in order to make a change. 



In buying land for a poultry farm, then, by all means 

 buy land that crops can be grown upon. If you cannot 

 farm the land yourself there are still" few places where it 

 would be advisable to start a poultry farm where one could 

 not readily rent his extra land for at least enough to pay 

 taxes on it and interest on the investment in it, and when 

 the time comes that he needs more land or a change of 

 land for his poultry, he has it. 



22. Broiler and Roaster Growers Use Artificial 

 Methods. There are some growers of soft roasters grow- 

 ing a few hundred a year who hatch and brood their 

 chickens with heqs, getting most of the chicks out in the 

 fall, but as a rule growers of both broilers and roasters use 

 artificial methods of hatching and brooding. Indeed with- 

 out the incubator and brooder these branches of the busi- 

 ness could never have been developed as they have been. 



