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duced there would be little additional cost in keeping 300 fowls in 

 place of 50, so that the profit in the poultry branch of the farm will 

 be comparatively high. 



Poultry and Fruit. 



While some fruit was raised on the other farms no specialty was 

 made of fruit raising. Farms "C" and "D" show what can be done 

 where specialties are made of both fruit growing and poultry. In 

 the case of farm "C", peach growing and poultry raising were both 

 specialties, though the peaches were the principal source of revenue 

 in 1911, there being $1,750 receipts from the peaches and $902.50 

 from the poultry. The fowls were allowed to run in the orchard. 

 Here we have a case of a double use of land, and the experience of 

 this farmer fully justifies the practice of combining, under proper 

 conditions, these two industries. Of the 14 acres, 12 are in peaches 

 and the orchard is 16 years old. The owner says: "Lower half of 

 orchard apparently greatly benefited by poultry, which have the run 

 of it. Marked difference in color of foliage, length of new growth and 

 size of fruit. Foliage darker green. New wood growth two-thirds 

 times as much and fruit one-fourth larger." He says that he had a 

 very good year for peaches in 1911. Another significant note is: 

 "Most profitable crop, peaches; surest crop, eggs." 



Farm "D" is another poultry and fruit combination. This farm 

 shows very satisfactory returns for the year in question. On 31 

 acres, with the labor of two regular men and another man half time, 

 there were produced in poultry products and fruit a total of $8,045.30. 

 Deducting the operating expenses there was a total profit of $5,479.30, 

 without taking into account interest on investment. Deducting the 

 living expenses and improvements there is a net cash gain of $4,554.30. 

 Of the total receipts, poultry and eggs furnished $2,715. The number 

 of laying hens was 770. There is a variety of fruit produced, but the 

 largest single item is apples. The 31 acres are practically all in 

 fruit of some kind. In addition to apples there is a considerable 

 orchard of prunes and several acres of berry bushes, chiefly rasp- 

 berries and Loganberries. All the green food for the chickens is 

 produced on the place, a patch of kale being grown and vetch some- 

 times grown among the trees. This farm shows good management 

 and care. The fowls are kept in colony houses and they have the 

 range of the orchard, no fences being used except during the breeding 

 season when some of the best of the flock are yarded for producing 

 eggs for hatching. The colony houses have not been moved since 

 they were built. The result of this has been that the berry bushes 

 close to the houses show more vigorous growth and produce better 

 than those at the other end of the patch where the chickens seldom 

 range. 



The sales from the fruit were nearly double those from the poultry. 

 The following year, however, on account largely of a difference in the 

 market for fruit, the receipts from the poultry exceeded those 

 from the orchard. At the present time Mr. Jorgenson, the 

 owner of this farm, has over a thousand laying hens on the place. 



