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crops. He may make poultry-keeping a leading feature of his farming 

 and still conduct a mixed husbandry farm.% He may specialize in 

 other branches of agriculture and make poultry-keeping a side 

 issue. In either case there are possibilities for profit. Whatever 

 may be the future of the poultry industry the fact is that it is not a 

 specialized business, so far as regards the production of market 

 poultry and eggs. There are specialists, however, who make a 

 business of raising improved breeding stock. That is a legitimate 

 and necessary business, but the great bulk of poultry produced comes, 

 and probably always will come, from a system of mixed husbandry 

 in which poultry-keeping may be the leading feature or merely a side 

 line to the other farm operations. 



A study of the individual reports secured show that we have in 

 Oregon a good poultry state. I have no doubt there are many other 

 poultry producers who have not been interviewed who would give 

 equally good reports, but we have enough, I think, to bring out the 

 point that poultry-keeping is a profitable business here and that 

 there is great encouragement for anyone to embark in that line of 

 farm production if he goes at it in the right way. 



SEVEN TYPICAL FARMS. 



I have selected seven different farms located in different sections 

 of the state to show under what conditions poultry is being raised 

 and what results are being secured. They are numbered "A" to 

 "G" inclusive. 



"A" represents a small farm of 20 acres and of one-man power, 

 in fact a bachelor. Practically the only income was from fowls, and 

 the operating expenses, outside of the owner's labor, was little or 

 nothing. 



Farm "B" represents a typical mixed husbandry farm of 307 acres. 

 The income was derived from four different branches, namely, field 

 crops, live stock, dairy and poultry, with poultry a prominent feature. 



Farm "C" is a small farm of 14 acres showing a combination of 

 peach growing and poultry in a natural fruit district. 



Farm "D" is a farm of 31 acres with fruit and poultry as the only 

 two items of production, the orchard producing a diversity of fruits. 



Farm "E" shows a different type of poultry farming. Here poultry 

 is the leading feature, with some livestock, dairy and orchard pro- 

 ducts as subsidiary lines. This shows what may be done on a com- 

 paratively small farm in diversified farming with poultry as a 

 specialty. 



Farm "F" represents a special poultry farm. In this case poultry 

 is the only business of the owner. 



Farm "G" is another, though different, type of mixed husbandry 

 farm, located in the eastern section of the state. In this case there is 

 a large acreage of comparatively cheap land but: a system of mixed 

 husbandry prevails, with poultry as the leading feature. 



