Spring Valley Poultry Farm, Rocklin, Cal. 



The fact is that the business of poultry keeping for egg production is a whole, 

 made up of parts. It is a unity, it hangs together; all features of it are important; 

 all parts must receive attention and the price of success is the ability to look aft( 



a m There ^profit 'in poultry, but the conditions must be met. The modern, 

 improved, up-to-date hen will lay eggs for you to the point of profit, but upon 



her own terms. 



What these terms are we may hope to indicate as we go on. _ 



But before we do this, we must guard against too great expectations from 



local conditions, and at the same time emphasize the great opportunity which 



California conditions offer the grower. 



Climate Not Sufficient 



No better climatic conditions can be found than some parts of California 

 offer, and the State as a whole is wonderfully adapted to promote the healt] 

 vigor of fowls But California does not produce enough poultry and eggs to supply 

 her own tables. Not only is this significant but California can show as many 

 abandoned poultry farms as other States in the Union. Why is this? A larger 

 proportion of people here have tried to get a living by keeping .poultry without 

 knowing how or taking time to learn. They were here for the sake of the cl mate 

 to recoup heJth, and the poultry ranch was a make-shift. They trusted in the 

 dimate to do two things-make them well, and make hens lay. They confuted 

 in mild air and sunshine, profited by it physically, but neglected the business side 

 of the hennery. The flock grew idle or sickness invaded it, and the effort to meet 

 expenses by renting a poultry farm failed. . 



This goes far to explain the chronic shortage of eggs and poultry in a State 

 that ought to export both. A full explanation would run back into agricultural 



