WHERE TO LOCATE 
rates that count. The proposition of transportation, especially 
for the grain buying poultry farm, catches us coming and 
going and both must be considered. 
A poultry farm in Section 7 will buy one hundred pounds of 
feed per year per hen and market one-third of a case of eggs. 
On this basis the grain rate from Chicago or St. Louis and 
the egg rate to New: York must. be balanced against each 
other. Don’t take these things for granted. Look them up. 
Jamesburg and Freehold, two New Jersey towns ten miles 
apart and equi-distant and with equal freight rates from New 
York, might seem to the unitiated as equally well situated 
to poultry farming. We will suppose two men bought forty- 
acre farms of equal quality and equi-distant from the ratlroad 
stations at these two towns. Suppose, further, they each kept 
five thousand hens. Jamesburg is on a Philadelphia-New York 
line of the Pennsylvania and its Chicago grain rate is the same 
as that of New York, namely: 19% cents per hundred. Free- 
hold is on a branch line; its rate is 24% cents. In a year 
the difference amounts to $250. Figured at six per cent. in 
terest, the land at Jamesburg is worth just about one hun- 
dred dollars an acre more than that at Freehold. 
Lumber rates or local lumber prices should also be taken 
into consideration. Whether one plans to ship his product out 
by express or freight will, of course, be an important consider- 
ation in deciding the location. 
As a general thing, the individual poultry farmer will, for 
shipping his product, use express east of Buffalo and north of 
Norfolk. The poultry community could use freight in these 
same regions and get as good or better service than by ex- 
press. 
The location in relation to the railroad station is equally 
important to the freight rate. Besides heavy hauling fre- 
quent trips will be necessary in marketing eggs. These on the 
larger farms will be daily or at least semi-weekly. On the 
heavy hauling alone, at 25 cents per ton mile, distance from 
the railroad will figure up 144 cents per hen which, on the 
basis of the previous illustration, would make a difference of 
twenty-five dollars per acre for every mile of distance from the 
station. One of the most successful poultry farms I know is 
right along the railroad and has an elevator which handles 
the grain from the cars and later dumps it into the feed 
wagons without its ever being touched by hand. The labor 
saving in this counts up rapidly. 
The poultry community can have its own elevator and the 
grain can be sold to the farmer to be delivered directly into 
the hoppers in his field with but a single loading into a wagon. 
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