Irrigating kale where water is plentiful 



thought. I built new houses, only to tear them down and build over 

 again next year, and so on for several years. 



I finally discovered that it was only at those brief seasons of the 

 year when I could have succulent green feed that my hens paid. 

 Then common sense began to assert itself and I began to reason that 

 it is impossible to have the hens lay eggs without she has what nature 

 intended. 



As Springtime conditions always brought eggs, it behooves us to 

 give the hens Springtime conditions all the year around. 



These Springtime conditions can be had the year around here in 

 California if you have fertile soil and cheap water for irrigation. 

 When I made this important discovery that hens must have all the 

 fresh succulent green feed they can eat every day in the year, I saw 

 very plainly that my location was absolutely worthless as a poultry 

 ranch. 



In these five years of endeavor I learned that a rich soil well 

 watered and near a good market are the necessary attributes to any 

 feasible location for poultry raising. I saw that it was imperative to 

 choose a new location, and this I did, choosing five acres of rich, 

 well-watered soil here near Palo Alto, and the seven years on this rich 

 soil have been as prosperous as the first five years were a failure. If 

 you have not these three essentials, sell out at once. 



You cannot afford to waste a single day without these necessary 

 conditions, and the sooner the change is mada the better. All the 

 successful poultrymen that I know have these essentials and the more 

 quality these essentials have the better the success. 



Green beets, green kale, green chard, green barley, green rape, 

 green alfalfa, green, green, green every day in the year, cries the hen, 

 and without this fresh green feed it is absolutely impossible to produce 

 eggs at a profit. To grow these green feeds you must have a large flow 

 of cheap water. You must have at least 200 or 300 gallons per minute 

 to be able to irrigate without too much loss of time. I have a centrifu- 

 gal pump that throws 600 gallons per minute, 36,000 gallons per hour, 

 360,000 gallons in ten hours, and at a cost of twenty cents per hour. 

 My water lift from water level is only ten feet. With my rich soil and 



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