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Two Illustrations. 



Returning to the question of the poultry farmer's growing 

 his grain, or the grain-growing farmer feeding his grain to 

 poultry, I want to tell a little about two farms which I have 

 visited within a few months, visiting them within a few days 

 of each other, which furnish excellent illustrations of the 

 matter under consideration, one from the farmer's, the other 

 from the poultryman's, point of view. 



The first is a farm of 200 acres, in New York State. For 

 a number of years this farm was run by its present owner 

 and a brother as a grain and grass farm, and was run at a 

 loss. In the effort to make the farm pay, they took up Hol- 

 stein cattle, and after a few years began to find the balances 

 on the ledger going to the right side. At some time during 

 the early experience in making a stock farm the other brother 

 withdrew, leaving the one who still owns it in full control. 

 Becoming interested in poultry and finding it profitable, this 

 man built up a large poultry plant, and increased the poultry 

 stock until last winter he had at the beginning of the season 

 about 3,000 laying hens. The poultry plant has been some 

 six years or more in developing, and in that time the stock 

 of cattle has been very much reduced ; it has, indeed, been 

 reduced too much ; and the owner of the farm told me that, 

 while he considered it more profitable to feed his grain to the 

 fowls than to sell it or use it in any other way, he had found 

 that to use his farm and all its produce to best advantage he 

 would have to carry a larger herd of cattle and some sheep, 

 which, with the horses needed for the farm work, would use 

 a part of the grain, and what hay, straw and pasturage could 

 not otherwise be used to full advantage. It may interest 

 those who read this to know that, though this man paid for 

 his farm with Holsteins, he is now going into Guernseys. 



The other farm alluded to is located in New Jersey, and 

 contains about 100 acres of good land, practically all under 

 cultivation. This farm has for many years been owned by a 

 city business man, and until last year was occupied by a ten- 

 ant farmer. A son of the owner of the farm has within a 

 few years built up on the farm quite a large and profitable 



