INTRODUCTION 



tions and is fattened, held in storage for any reasonable 

 length of time, and then sold at nearly the same price as 

 fresh killed poultry products will command. 



POULTRY RAISING IS PROFITABLE 



The bulk of the poultry is produced, and the greatest 

 opportunity for profit exists, on general farms especially 

 in the Central West section. The leading states given in 

 the order of their value of poultry products is as follows : 

 Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 

 New York, Kansas, Texas, Michigan and California. 

 Poultry is kept in good sized flocks on most every farm in 

 these states, these flocks containing from 25 to 200 hens. 

 The states of California, New York, New Jersey, and 

 Pennsylvania contain also a considerable number of good 

 sized commercial poultry farms which aid materially in 

 bringing up the value of the poultry products in these 

 states. Nearly every general farm could carry 100 hens 

 profitably, while on many farms where some member of 

 the family likes poultry, a much larger number of fowls 

 than this can be kept profitably. Poultry kept on farms 

 can be fed to some extent on unmarketable grains and 

 will secure a considerable part of their living during the 

 growing .season from products which would otherwise be 

 largely wasted. Better feeding and management of the 

 hens and care in handling the poultry products would 

 give a greater increase of profit from the farm flock than 

 from most any other branch of poultry raising. Although 

 the bulk of the poultry products will always come from the 



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