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exclusively. Some have quite a large trade in the best grades of their stock, 

 sold for breeding purposes at several times the prices for market poultry. A 

 few whose principal interest is in practical poultry are successful exhibitors 

 of standard fowls, arid sell exhibition birds and birds for breeding exhibition 

 stock at high prices. On the other hand, every extensive breeder of high 

 class stock has to dispose of a considerable part of what he produces at market 

 prices. As long as this can be regarded as a by-product, he need not consider 

 the market for it when selecting a location ; but, if he must depend on it for 

 a considerable part of his income, it may be best to give market advantages 

 great weight when deciding where to locate. The combination of exhibition, 

 breeding and market stock, is generally the best for those in the business for 

 profit ; especially is this true in the case of a plant located outside of the areas 

 adapted to exclusive market poultrying. Such a combination can be made 

 profitable near almost any large town. 



21. Buying Land for a Poultry Plant. The plant should not be 

 built on rented ground. The rent adds to current expenses. Removal means 

 either the sacrifice of the greater part of the value of the improvements, or 

 expense, and damage to buildings in moving. The amount of land needed 

 for the plant depends as much on the system of housing used as on the number 

 of fowls kept. A large stock kept on the colony plan will occupy a good 

 sized farm. On most of the large plants the fowls are yarded, being housed 

 in long sectional houses. This system brings a large stock upon a small area. 

 From five to ten acres is ordinarily enough land for a poultryman. As far as 

 suitability for poultry keeping goes, the soil need not be fertile. Often a tract 

 admirably adapted to poultry keeping is quite worthless for other purposes. 

 Nevertheless, it is not good policy to buy land that cannot be improved to 

 make comfortable, pleasant home surroundings, for the poultryman's home 

 and place of business are necessarily together. Another thing to consider in 

 buying is, that poultry keeping and fruit raising or gardening are often 

 profitably combined, and it is worth while to take account of the possibility 

 of its proving advisable at some future time to make such a combination. 

 Buying a place on time, is as bad a mistake as renting land. The beginner's 

 profits cannot stand such drains. 



22. Adapting Business to Location. For nearly all who begin in a 

 small way with the expectation of making a living, ultimately, from poultry 

 and for, perhaps, all who make poultrying an adjunct of another 

 occupation, the question of location is, from the first, a closed question. 

 They already have a site which they think might be used to advantage for 

 poultry. The statements in the preceding paragraphs will suggest to such 

 persons the branches of the business best suited to their circumstances. Thus, 

 on a site suitable for poultry within one of the areas where exclusive market 

 poultry keeping can always be made profitable, eggs and poultry will from 



