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the spring, but the most profitable way is to seed to a cover 

 crop in the fall after cultivation is done, and have the pigs 

 ready to turn on the following spring. 



Why do we not advocate keeping larger flocks of poul- 

 try? The present high prices of grain, and the fear of a 

 restrictive legislation, do not give poultry keeping a good 

 outlook at present, unless you are in a position to produce 

 most of your grain. If a fruit grower can produce fair crops 

 of wheat, barley and corn, it will certainly pay him to staj- 

 in the chicken business. I do not think he will make any 

 money this year, but as sure as fate there will come a time 

 when the swing will be back into poultry. Prices of feed 

 will drop sometime in the future, and then there will be a 

 great shortage of birds. There will be a rush to get back 

 into the chicken business, just- as there has been a stampede 

 to buy sheep. Then those men who have stuck to the propo- 

 sition, and have kept up the quality of their flocks, will have 

 far more business than they can attend to in supplying the 

 people who want to get back into the chicken business. A 

 young man or a boy, can hardly do better at this time than to 

 cull and select a small but choice breeding flock of almost 

 any breed that suits him. My advice would be to enter pul- 

 lets from this stock at one of the Egg Laying Contests, and 

 stay by them year after year. In the course of time there 

 will come a good record, and when prices of grain fall, as 

 they must in the future, the reward will come when people 

 must have good birds to start up their flocks anew. I have 

 had no experience in growing Spring Wheat in this part 

 of the country, and personally I doubt if that crop will pay. 

 If there are localities where it will get through, I think both 

 Spring Wheat and Winter Wheat, the latter as a cover crop, 

 will pay in place of rye. 



In former years, when labor was to be obtained, I have 

 grown considerable crops of potatoes, tomatoes and smaller 

 garden stuff. This year it will depend largely upon the la 

 bor supply. It would be, I think, folly to start such crops 

 on a fruit farm, unless we were entirely sure of labor enough 



