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yards, and year after year upon the same ground and in the same 

 houses. They attempt to keep greater numbers than their actual 

 capacity. Most of these plants are built by some one who is good at 

 building air castles, and who has some freakish and untried notion or 

 idea, and he is going to show the rest of the world a thing or two. 

 He builds long poultry houses which require more labor in caring 

 for the stock, cost more than his income to keep up repairs on roof, 

 windows, doors, paint, etc. He makes many small yards which re- 

 quire miles of fencing and much for renewal every few years. He 

 crowds thousands of chickens into the place, and everything connected 

 with the plant is so unnatural and artificial that the stock loses its 

 vitality, disease sets in, he produces little or no feed, and the cost of 

 labor and repairs exceed the revenue. The lack of experience and 

 the lack of a close study and application of the methods of those who 

 are succeeding has taken many a poultry plant, some costing $100.00, 

 some $100,000, down to ruin and failure. 



This shows poultry which is being kept in small yards which are too small to be 

 cultivated satisfactorily, and the ground becomes contaminated with disease germs, and 

 ruin and disaster follow. 



A poultry farm, rightly conducted, operated by a man or woman, 

 with a reasonable amount of experience, common sense and judgment, 

 will pay as well as most any other business, for the actual amount 

 invested. On a poultry farm the fowls, especially the breeding stock 

 is given free range. The young stock is grown in a cornfield or 

 where they can grow strong, healthy and lusty. The ground is culti- 

 vated and crops are grown on same. Small yards are done away with 

 as much as possible. The land devoted to poultry is not crowded be- 

 yond its capacity. Because of free range, less fencing is required, 

 less labor, less housing, less repairs, there is better health, more 

 vigor, and greater net returns. Before you invest much in the busi- 

 ness, learn well the difference between a "poultry plant" and a 

 "poultry farm." 



