White Orpington Type 



conditions in California, but it is enough to point to the fact that climate alone 

 cannot be depended on to make poultry keeping easy or profitable. 



The climate is relatively more favorable for the winter production of eggs 

 than in the colder States, but winter eggs come high in California. Poultry 

 keepers find that winter egg production is a problem here as elsewhere, and that 

 hens get cold, and want shelter and sunshine and protection from chilling winds, 

 and that getting eggs here as elsewhere is a matter of constant attention to details, 

 and not of dependence upon climate. 



The General Situation 



It differs in California in important particulars from other sections of the 

 country at large, and these differences make the California opportunity. 



Two features are here: numerous large poultry farms and a home market. 

 In the Middle West the bulk of the eggs comes from the flocks of the farmers, and is 

 largely exported. California imports both eggs and poultry. There has been a 

 large increase in production during the last five or six years, yet the importations 

 from Missouri River points show yearly several million dozen eggs, and several 

 hundred cars of live and frozen fowls. 



The prices here are usually a little higher than in the Eastern States for both 

 eggs and poultry, and the situation indicates the possibility of large development 

 within the demands of the home market. There is room for more poultry farms ; the 

 market is still unsupplied by home products, and the man or woman who will not 

 neglect the details of the business in reliance upon the California climate, can 

 build up a steadily profitable industry. There is no reason why. the consumer 

 should eat long-refrigerated fowls for the Sunday dinner or eggs from Kansas or 

 Nebraska that may not have been strictly fresh when they started across the 

 continent. 



