POULTRY'S PLACE IN A ROTATION. 



CHAPTER XL 



THIS question is frequently asked : "What farm or 

 garden crops can I best grow in connection with 

 poultry ?" Poultry-keeping is a winter business. One 

 can work with hens while the farm is resting. During 

 the summer the hens rest and the soil must be made to 

 work. As a rule, men who go largely into poultry-keep- 

 ing select some special line of farming or gardening. Mr. 

 Wyckoff, for example, has a butter-dairy. He is on a good- 

 sized farm and grows a large share of his grain. The skim- 

 milk, too, is fine poultry-food, the hens making a more profit- 

 able use of it than would hogs or lambs. This is a good ar- 

 rangement if one has the land. It seems probable, however, 

 that the most successful poultry-keeping will be done on 

 smaller areas in connection with small fruit or vegetable-grow- 

 ing. Mr. Warner has about 20 acres. With his 600 hens he 

 finds that asparagus and small fruits are profitable crops. 

 Potatoes, cabbage and celery are also good because the wastes 

 can be utilized as green food for poultry. 



One of the most practically successful poultry-farms that 

 we know of is that of Mr. A. Johnson, in New Jersey. A de- 

 tailed statement of his methods will answer hundreds of ques- 

 tions that have been asked regarding poultry-keeping. The 

 facts given here can be easily verified. 



Mr. Johnson was a jeweler by trade. His eyes gave out and 

 he was forced to leave the city and go to farming. He had 

 bought a place of 18 acres a short distance from Paterson, N. J. , 

 just after the war, when prices were inflated and land wa,s sold 

 for its prospective value for building-lots. He ran in debt for 



