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profitable, have not been numerous. The owners of many of 

 these plants have claimed that they were making very large 

 profits, and their claims have led others to engage in the business, 

 following in every detail the methods in use on some large plant 

 which they suppose is very successful. So, while well-informed 

 poultry keepers know that these methods are not practical on a 

 large scale, except in a few limited lines of production, there is 



FIG. 1 10. Interior of a compartment in commercial poultry house, United 



States Government farm, Beltsville, Maryland. (Photograph from Bureau of 



Animal Industry) 



in the business a constant succession of newcomers who try to 

 operate egg farms and breeding farms and combinations of 

 various lines by methods that are not suited to their purpose. 

 Common type of intensive poultry farm. The ordinary special 

 poultry farm is a run-down farm upon which have been erected 

 the buildings necessary for the accommodation of from four or 

 five hundred to two or three thousand fowls kept in compara- 

 tively small yards. The buildings are nearly always neat and 

 substantial, the fences strong and durable. The arrangement of 



