WHERE TO LOCATE 
that of Section 6, is one in which imported grain is fed. The 
fertility of this grain, going back on the light soil, is used to 
grow the green food required by the hens, and, in addition, 
may be used in a rotation system for growing truck. It will 
not pay to grow any quantity of grain. Section 7, because of 
its advantages over Section 6 in climate and the availability 
of large tracts of suitable land, is a much better location for 
the poultry community. Over Section 4, which is the second 
best region for this purpose, it has the advantage of nearness 
to markets. The climatic advantage of Sections 4 and 7 are 
about on a par. The chief distinction is the matter of grow- 
ing grain or importing it. If you are to grow your grain, us- 
ing poultry as a means of marketing it, Section 4 ig the best 
locality. If you are to buy grain, Section 7 is the place. 
The boundaries of Section 7 are not arbitrary and should 
be noted carefully. The line runs from Mattawan, New Jer- 
sey, across to the main line of the Pennsylvania and down this 
to Washington. To the north and west of this, the soils are 
heavy clays which are wet, cold, slushy and easily befouled. 
Likewise, the line on the south is distinctly marked by the 
Norfolk and Western Railway and is a matter of freight rates 
on grain. Norfolk gets a rate of sixteen and a half cents from 
Chicago; a couple of hundred miles south, the rate is about 
twice as much. Cheaper grain rates would of course extend 
this belt on down the coast where the climate is even more 
favorable. 
Chicken Climate. 
Climate is a big figure in the cost of poultry production. 
Every day that water is frozen in winter means increased 
labor and decreased egg yield. Mild winters means cheap 
houses, cheap labor, cheap feed (a large proportion of green 
food), an earlier chick season, which, together with the mild 
weather and green feed, mean a large proportion of the egg 
yield at the season when eggs are high in price. 
The American poultry editor wastes a great deal of ink ex- 
plaining why the Australian egg records of 175 eggs per hen, 
cannot be so, because in this country, the hens at the Maine 
station only averaged 125. The Maine Experiment Station lies 
buried in a snow drift for about five months of the year. The 
Australian station has a winter climate equal to that of New 
Orleans. The Australian records do not go below thirty eggs 
per day per hundred hens at any time during the year. Our 
New York and New England records run down anywhere 
from one to ten eggs per day per hundred hens. 
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