16 POULTRY FARMING 
two hundred to five hundred together, in long, shed-roof laying 
houses. The soil is very sandy and the winters mild, thus offer- 
ing ideal conditions for such large flocks. The district comprises 
about ten square miles. It is estimated that over one hundred 
thousand adult Leghorn fowls are here kept under these inten- 
sive conditions. 
Fic. 14.—Each house is a 200-bird unit (Vineland). 
Hunterdon County.—There is another section in the same 
State which comprises the whole of one county,—namely, that of 
Hunterdon, in the north-central part of New Jersey. It is pri- 
marily a section for general and dairy farming. But upon each 
farm there are usually kept from two hundred to one thousand 
laying hens, white Leghorns predominating. The object is white 
Fic. 15.—A house holding one thousand birds at Vineland. Large units are coming into 
more general use. 
eggs for the New York City markets. This county alone winters 
over three hundred thousand laying hens. The methods practised 
in this district are noticeably extensive, the farms being large and 
the birds being given unlimited range. This is one of the oldest 
egg-producing sections of note in America, and the extensive 
methods practised for years are still proving the most profitable 
under the existing conditions. 
