Weeks Portable Poultry House for back yards, also used for Colony 



Brooder House 



CHAPTER XV. 



POULTRY KEEPING IN THE BACK YARD 



ALL the money of all the world will not keep humanity from famine. 

 All the saving of all the world on all the foods is wise, but 

 without increased production the people will starve. 



Never before in all the history of all the ages of the human race was 

 there so much danger of a world famine as today. When all the people 

 of all the liberty-loving nations are expending all their resources on 

 wiping from the earth this Militarism, we must not forget that pro- 

 ducing food in gigantic quantities will furnish the power, and the 

 strength, and the endurance that in the end will win out in this gigantic 

 struggle. Today we need another army behind that great army made 

 up of the nation's best manhood. We need an army that will include 

 in its ranks not only men of all ages, but women and boys and girls. 

 We need this second army organized and drilled, and educated in the 

 art and science of producing food products from the soil. 



'At this critical time when the foundations of our very institutions 

 are shaken, when the church and the school and the State are in a state 

 of tension, we must not forget the very essentials of life, and must not 

 let one single foot of earth lie idle that we can till. The institution of 

 the family must not become paralyzed because some of its members are 

 called, but must go on producing twice as much food. 



If it were possible to turn the peoples of the over-crowded cities 

 back to nature and the soil, and teach them how to produce every good 



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