WHERE TO LOCATE 
used them to fertilize his cabbage patch and in turn sold the 
poultryman cabbages to feed his hens, at 5 cents a head. Of 
course, this man failed, as does practically every man who 
attempts to scrape dropping boards and carry poultry manure 
around in baskets, instead of using it where it falls. 
There is little to be said in favor of uncleared land for the 
poultry business, but there is something that can be said in 
favor of the poultry business for uncleared land. A man who 
buys a timbered land for trucking can get no income whatever 
the first year, but the poultryman can begin his operations in 
the woods, clearing the land while he is raising a crop of 
chickens on it. The coops may be placed in the cleared streak 
and most of the droppings utilized. In fact, the plan of a 
streak of timber alongside the houses is not bad for a perma- 
nent arrangement—the birds certainly enjoy the shade. But 
the shade of growing crops is the most profitable kind for 
poultry. 
Marketing—Transportation. 
The possibilities of working up a local trade of high grade 
_eggs at fancy prices varies greatly with the locality. Large 
cities and wealthy people are essentials. Other than this the 
principal distinctions are that regions where a general surplus 
of eggs are produced offer little chance for a fancy trade. 
Where the great bulk of eggs are imported fancy trade is more 
feasible. St. Louis is the smallest western city that supports 
anything like a fancy trade in eggs and there it is only on a 
small scale. Minneapolis, Omaha, etc., would not pay 3 cents 
premium for the best eggs produced, but cities of the same 
size east of the Appalachins and especially in New England, 
will pay a good premium. The Far West or the mountain dis- 
tricts will pay up better than the Mississippi Valley. The 
South will pay a little better than the upper Mississippi Val- 
ley, but has few cities of sufficient size to make such markets 
abundant. The Southerner has little regard for quality in 
produce and the most aristocratic people consume eggs regu- 
larly that the wife of a Connecticut factory hand wouldn’t 
have in the house. The egg farmer who expects to sell locally 
had best not locate south of Washington or west of Pittsburg, 
unless he goes to the Pacific Coast. 
Where marketing is not done by wagon the subject of rail- 
road transportation is practically identical with the question 
of marketing. It is the cost in freight service and freight 
