The Philo system and the Corning system are the two widely 

 exploited systems that have cost the world a mint of money. They 

 have added to the progress of the poultry industry in that they have 

 provoked thought and experimentation along new lines. Both the 

 colony system, with its small houses on runners, and the yarding 

 system, with its foul runs, have been used for years and each has 

 its deficiencies. 



The colony plan, with its small houses on runners which are dragged 

 from place to place, necessitates a large acreage and is prohibitive to 

 the man of modest means. It is essential in this system to change the 

 houses to new ground at least once a year. This system, perhaps, 

 necessitates the greatest amount of heavy labor because of the distance 

 to be traversed each day in hauling feed and water. 



It is sloppy and muddy in the winter season and all the eggs 

 require washing. Besides the fowls are most uncomfortable. This 

 system may make a profit of 25, 50, 75 cents or in rare instances one 

 dollar per hen. It is a cumbersome system with heaviest drudgery 

 and far from the best. 



The double yarding system with medium sized flocks is, perhaps, 

 the most universal system in use, and if yards are kept pure by growing 

 crops, it gives results. But this system requires a lot of labor in keeping 

 the yards free from disease germs. It is also expensive in ground, wire 

 fencing and posts. Besides, it presents an unkempt appearance that 

 always looks ragged. It entails an endless amount of detail in opening 

 and closing gates and much retracing of steps. Canker and pox 

 usually come from filthy yards, and it is a hard task to keep them pure. 

 The routine of this system, like the Philo, becomes irksome and wear- 

 ing, and, although better than the other systems just mentioned, it 

 has not given the results compared with the one about which I am 

 to tell you. 



After twelve years of handling poultry in large numbers and many 

 varieties, making this my exclusive business and working out every 

 detail with my own two hands, spending iy whole thought upon this 

 line, and continuously carrying on experiments, I have at last evolved a 

 system of intensified poultry keeping that gets the results of the Philo 

 system with the detail eliminated. 



I have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the diseases of 

 poultry come from filthy yards and the dust-laden foul air inside. 

 The foul yards I have eliminated at one stroke by dispensing with 

 them after years of careful experimenting. 



Yards are absolutely unnecessary in getting the greatest profit 

 from fowls, and in fact are a detriment, even if they could be kept free 

 from harmful germs. All poultrymen mean to keep their yards pure, 

 but they never do it. Yards are in the way of maximum results and 

 only a nuisance. The yard has no place in my system of poultry 

 keeping, the ground being worth far more for producing greens. 



The less space a fowl can be kept on and yet insure health, the less 

 space there will be to disinfect and keep free from disease germs. 



It has been proven beyond argument that egg production increases 

 as the size of the flock decreases. That happy point, where egg pro- 

 duction reached its maximum with a given number of fowls, has taken 

 years of experimenting with all sizes of flocks and all systems of 



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