THE POULTRY PRODUCING COMMUNITY 
To extend such to each laborer requires more system and bet 
ter superintendence, but it is feasible and must come. But, 
better still is it for the worker to own the stock. Best yet if 
he owns both stock and land, leaving to larger capital only 
such phases of the business as involve great saving when done 
on a wholesale basis. 
Just as the manufacturer of farm machinery, the packing of 
meat and the manufacture of butter have successfully been 
taken out of the control of the individual farmer and placed 
under corporate or co-operative organization, so the writer ex- 
pects to see certain portions of the process of poultry produc- 
tion removed from the hands of the farmer and controlled by 
more specialized and expert labor. Far from meaning the 
lessening of the earning power of the farmer, every one of such 
steps means larger production and more profits. The ideal of 
agricultural economics is to give the farmer the smallest 
possible proportion of the work of agricultural production in 
order that the most may be produced and the farmer’s share 
along with the others may be largest. 
Established Poultry Communities. 
In a previous chapter we spoke of the South Shore roaster 
district of Massachusetts. Here is a community where, in 
lots of from a dozen to four or five thousand, are annually 
produced seventy-five or one hundred thousand market fowls 
of one particular type. While this business was not built up 
by the efforts of a corporation or individual who planned 
definitely the entire project, yet we find a central influence 
at work in the person of the firm of Curtis Bros., who for 
years have bought the majority of South Shore roasters, and 
who have done a great deal to advertise the product and en- 
courage their neighbors to a larger and more uniform pro- 
duction. 
At Little Compton, R. L, is a very similar parallel of the 
South Shore district in the shape of egg farms. Here we find 
within a radius of two miles about one hundred thousand 
Rhode Island Red hens owned in flocks of two thousand or 
less. The methods used throughout the community are all 
alike and are simple in the extreme. There are no incubators, 
no brooders, no poultry houses, no long houses, no dropping 
boards to be scraped every morning, nothing in fact, but 
board-walled, board-roofed, colony houses, scattered over the 
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