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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 con- 

 tains 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 tenant farmer. A son of 

 the owner of the farm has within a few years built up on the farm 

 quite a large and profitable poultry plant, following at first the 

 intensive method a little more closely than is advisable on a farm, 

 and using but a small portion of the land for poultry. But as the 

 poultry business grew, the need of abundance of room for the 

 growing stock and the advantages of combining poultry keeping 

 and the growing of crops which could be used for poultry food be- 

 came so apparent that when recently the tenant's lease expired, it 

 was not renewed, and the owners are now operating the entire 

 farm themselves, hiring competent farm hands to attend to the 

 crops, the poultry being still the special charge of the young man 

 who built up the poultry plant. 



These two farms (I wish every reader of this bulletin could see 

 them both) furnish the most noteworthy illustrations of combined 

 poultry keeping and crop growing I can at present call to mind, 

 though I could cite scores of cases where similar combinations are 

 made on a smaller scale. 



The point is to strike the proper balance between the different 

 kinds of work and make them fit well together. 



The Labor Question. 

 The most difficult matter to regulate, when poultry keeping is 

 combined with other farm lines of work, is the labor. When the 

 pressure of work in two or three different lines is greatest at one 

 season of the year, something is likely to be neglected. As a rule, 

 the branch of work neglected is that which seems of least impor- 

 tance, or in which the worker feels less certain of his ability to get 

 the results desired. Thus, an expert poultryman, trying to do 

 some farming, who finds that he cannot handle all the work he has 

 undertaken, usually neglects the farming; while a farmer is more 

 apt to make sure of the crops, to the neglect of the poultry. Now, 

 I do not feel that I am at all competent to tell any one who gets into 



