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POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 





A LARGE POULTRY FARM IN RHODE ISLAND 



Where land unfit for cultivation is used. 



of vigor and consequent lower production. On the wide 

 range it should be understood that the work of feeding is 

 much simplified. For instance, on a farm of 120 acres of 

 which the author has knowledge, with 6,000 hens, the after- 

 noon feeding was done by a boy of fourteen in half an hour. 

 He jumped on a horse at one o'clock and made the rounds of 

 all the scattered colonies in that time, doing the work of 

 feeding wheat by opening a self-feeding bin. Under in- 

 tensive conditions greater care must be exercised in the 



2,000 HENS ON THREE ACRES 

 S. A. Bickford, near Los Angeles. 



