Water flowing from four-inch centrifugal pump on Weeks Farm. Five hundred 



gallons per minute. 



three essentials rich soil, cheap water and home market. Any 

 community of poultry raisers that has not these three essentials must 

 tolerate a large number of failures. There are so many locations with 

 these three essentials that it seems folly to locate without them. 



In making my start twelve years ago I looked long and faithfully 

 for that much talked of "light, sandy soil" which was thought so 

 necessary for healthy fowls, and finally chose what I thought to be an 

 ideal soil with plenty of sand and gravel, little dreaming that it is only 

 what the soil produces in the way of green feed for poultry that 

 makes it a good poultry soil. What a mistake I made! The soil was 

 too poor to grow anything but trees, being in the fruit section, and as 

 the hens could not eat the soil and lay eggs, it was absolutely worthless 

 as a poultry proposition. Then I had to lift my water fifty feet for 

 irrigation, and only a little stream at that, and any practical man 

 knows that it is impossible to lift water over thirty feet and make it 

 pay in producing vegetables. 



Five long, hard years I toiled and labored on this unproductive 

 soil with little water and barely earned a subsistence. The trials and 

 tribulations and worries and heartaches of these first five years are 

 only a repetition of the experience of hundreds of others who are so 

 unfortunate as to locate on an unproductive soil with no water for 

 irrigation. 



I had set out to make poultry raising my life work. I had dreams. 

 To be balked in the line I had chosen and loved this early in the game 

 was more than I could bear, and I was determined to solve the problem 

 of how to make hens pay. That the equipment was wrong was what I 



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