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dance of room they require far less care. The best arrangements 

 I have ever seen for growing young chicks have been on farms of 

 breeders of choice exhibition fowls, who want to give their chicks 

 the best possible chance to grow into fine specimens, and endeavor 

 to aid nature in every possible way. I visited such a farm not 

 long since, where the broods of chicks were distributed at good 

 intervals along the edges of the mowing fields. The coops were 

 placed out this way quite early in the spring, as fast as the chickens 

 were hatched. The fences were lined with vines and shrubbery, 

 making a fine shade for the chicks. Before the grass was ready 

 to cut a narrow strip was mowed with a scythe along the edge near 

 the coops, giving ample room for the chicks while small. Then 

 after the hay crop was taken off the growing chickens had all the 

 land to themselves. Such an arrangement as this is possible any- 

 where, and for ordinary stock it is possible to care for chicks in 

 this way with very little work. Food and water can be by them 

 all the time, and with opportunity and the disposition to exercise, 

 with plenty of green stuff and bugs and worms to be had, I have 

 seen chicks thus grown on cracked corn alone and with little labor. 



Partnership Arrangements. 



So far we have considered our subject on the supposition that 

 one man has to do all the various tasks. When a man can have 

 help from some members of his family, or when his business justi- 

 fies the employment of another man, or when two or more men 

 work together as partners, the problem is very much simplified, 

 because it is easier for two or more persons to divide certain labors 

 than for one person to divide his time for a variety of tasks or 

 occupations. The ideal condition of diversified farming which in- 

 cludes poultry keeping is a partnership, in which each member of 

 the firm or of the family looks after a particular branch of the 

 work, and each helps out others in emergencies. It is not neces- 

 sary to attempt an enumeration or specification of the possibilities 

 of arrangements of this kind. Poultry keeping is an employment 

 in which both women and children can engage to advantage, and 

 at the same time it is one which, if conducted on a large scale, is 

 worth a man's time and strength and resources. 



Rightly managed, it will always, as far as we can now see, be a 

 profitable specialty for most farmers in the area contiguous to our 

 great sea-board cities. We can conceive of conditions under 

 which the western farmers, with their facilities for producing 

 poultry products abundantly and cheaply, might make poultry 

 growing in the eastern States unprofitable ; but we cannot find 

 reasons for supposing that those conditions will ever materialize, 



