Twenty-five hens in each 8x8 pen Healthy, happy, productive. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE MOST INTENSIVE EGG FARM IN THE WORLD 



SOME years ago a man by the name of Philo, Elmira, N. Y., startled 

 the world by a new and unheard-of system of keeping poultry 

 in small pens with no outside runs. He wrote a little pamphlet telling 

 of this new and wonderful system of poultry raising whereby one could 

 earn S4,500 from a town lot in one year. The whole world went to 

 raising poultry in the back yard. Philo, it is said, made $100,000 from 

 this little pamphlet in one year. Old poultrymen smiled and said that 

 it could never be done. Nevertheless, Philo coops sprang up in the 

 back yards the world over and sometimes on the roofs of tall 

 buildings in large cities. 



The old poultrymen began to sit up and take notice when the tales 

 of wonderful egg production came pouring in from all directions. 

 They began to wonder what there was in this system of keeping six 

 hens in a pen 4 by 6 feet that causes such an amazing increase in the 

 eggs. They began to experiment with this new plan. They tested it 

 alongside their large flock, free range systems and found out that Phild 

 had only emphasized a natural and primary truth and that this truth 

 or law holds good in the production of all kinds of live stock. 



Segregation is the whole secret of Philo's success. 



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