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A farm to be well adapted to market poultry keeping should be not more than a few miles 

 from a station that has a good express service to a good poultry market. If there is also a 

 good local market, so much the better; but don't rely too much on a local market that has no 

 convenient outlet to a large market, for such a market may at any time become glutted with 

 poultry products and continue so simply by a slight permanent increase in local production. 



A farm for poultry should also be of such proportions that the fowls may range widely 

 without encroaching on the premises of neighbors, or, at least without trespassing where their 

 presence would be objectionable. It is desirable that it should have abundance of shade r 

 perferably orchard trees which may be expected to add something to the Income, but groves 

 and thickets serve the purpose as far as the fowls are concerned provided there is not too much 

 wood or brush in the vicinity affording harbor for wild animals which prey on poultry. The 

 advantage of shade already on the farm is that it provides at once good summer conditions for 

 both fowls and chickens, while on land bare of trees and bushes makeshift shades must be 

 provided until trees or other natural shade can be grown, and the shade supplied in that way 

 rarely makes conditions at all approaching the best. What is usually found on such farms is 



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Grove Hill 'Poultry 'Yards Farm Plant. 

 Scale, 1-8O inch to the foot; 1-16 incli equals T> feet. 



A, 300 ft. stock house; 1*. shed at east end of same; B,' scratching shed house; C, I), ;<nl K, cockerel h< 



