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Other Considerations 



Three other considerations in regard to location 

 should be aimed for if possible, but done without if 

 necessary. These are: 



1. PROXIMITY TO OTHER POULTRYMEN. Asso- 

 ciation with others in the same business is always a 

 help, and in none more than in work with poultry. 

 Such poultry colonies as those at Gardena, San Ga- 

 briel and Arlington, not to mention Petaluma and a 

 hundred towns in Northern California, are of great 

 advantage to the men who compose them. Supplies 

 are bought at wholesale prices, when otherwise they 

 would be purchased at retail, and in many associa- 

 tions products are collected and marketed for the 

 producers. On the other hand, the small producer, if 

 he has the land, may be able to build up a profitable 

 retail business in a suburban town where there are 

 not many other producers if there is such a town in 

 California. 



2. DRAINAGE. Some drainage for poultry runs 

 is vital, for water standing on the ground where 

 fowls are kept is always a source of disease, but it is 

 usually possible on several acres of land to find one 

 point which is sufficiently higher than the rest to 

 insure good drainage. 



3. A SOUTHERLY EXPOSURE. This is not neces- 

 sary, but it is a very great help in maintaining health 

 among the fowls. A gentle southerly slope is prob- 

 ably the best of all locations for a poultry farm or 

 plant, for on such a slope there can never be lack of 

 sunshine, that best of germicides. Given open-front 

 houses, fronting south and downhill, there should be 

 no excuse whatever for disease of any sort. 



4. PROTECTION FROM WIND. An exposed hill- 

 top is never a good place for chickens, but a judicious 

 arrangement of windbreaks can be made to obviate 



