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If your land is bare, by all means plan on setting out 

 fruit or nut trees. The hens will fertilize them for you 

 and you will be wetting down the yards to keep the 

 ground moist and obviate dust colds, so they will need 

 little if any irrigation. We have never had nut trees in 

 our yards but are considering resetting our old trees with 

 walnuts. We have had apricots, peaches and prunes in 

 the yards and derived some revenue from them although 

 the birds eat and destroy a lot of the fruit; of the three 

 the prunes were harmed the least. 



You must allow space for growing green stuff. In 

 the description of our plant and methods you will find this 

 matter treated at length and you can without doubt obtain 

 ideas there that can be adapted for your own place. Some 

 think we are wasteful of space, especially in our brooder 

 yards, but we make good use in one way or another of 

 almost all the space we have. 



The Breed to Keep 



Under present prevailing conditions you have no choice 

 in the matter of the breed of chickens to keep on an egg 

 farm. It seems safe to say that at least 90 per cent of the 

 hens on the commercial egg farms throughout the coun- 

 try are White Leghorns. This being true you can ill 

 afford to keep anything else. When you are safely estab- 

 lished you will have hatching eggs to sell. If there is a 

 commercial hatchery in the section where you locate the 

 chances are all in favor of their wanting nothing but Leg- 

 horn eggs; and with the kind of birds you will have, 

 cared for as you will care for them, the hatchery will 

 want your eggs. 



