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exclusively. Some have quite a large trade in the best grades of their stock, 
sold for breeding purposes at several times the prices for market poultry. A 
few whose principal interest is in practical poultry are successful exhibitors 
of standard fowls, and sell exhibition birds and birds for breeding exhibition 
stock at high prices. On the other hand, every extensive breeder of high 
class stock has to dispose of a considerable part of what he produces at market 
prices. As longas this can be regarded as a by-product, he need not consider 
the market for it when selecting a location; but, if he must depend on it for 
a considerable part of his income, it may be best to give market advantages 
great weight when deciding where to locate. The combination of exhibition, 
breeding and market stock, is generally the best for those in the business for 
profit; especially is this true in the case of a plant located outside of the areas 
adapted to exclusive market poultrying. Such a combination can be made 
profitable near almost any large town. 
21. Buying Land for a Poultry Plant.— The plant should not be 
built on rented ground. The rent adds to current expenses. Removal means 
either the sacrifice of the greater part of the value of the improvements, or 
expense, and damage to buildings in moving. The amount of land needed 
for the plant depends as much on the system of housing used as on the number 
of fowls kept. A large stock kept on the colony plan will occupy a good 
sized farm. On most of the large plants the fowls are yarded, being housed 
in long sectional houses. This system brings a large stock upon a small area. 
From five to ten acres is ordinarily enough land for a poultryman. As far as 
suitability for poultry keeping goes, the soil need not be fertile. Often a tract 
admirably adapted to poultry keeping is quite worthless for other purposes. 
Nevertheless, it is not good policy to buy land that cannot be improved to 
make comfortable, pleasant home surroundings, for the poultryman’s home 
and place of business are necessarily together. Another thing to consider in 
buying is, that poultry keeping and fruit raising or gardening are often 
profitably combined, and it is worth while to take account ‘of the possibility 
of its proving advisable at some future time to make such a combination. 
Buying a place on time, is as bad a mistake as renting land. The beginner’s 
profits cannot stand such drains. 
22. Adapting Business to Location.— For nearly all who begin in a 
small way with the expectation of making a living, ultimately, from poultry 
—and for, perhaps, all who make poultrying an adjunct of another 
occupation, the question of location is, from the first, a closed question. 
They already have a site which they think might be used to advantage for 
poultry. The statements in the preceding paragraphs will suggest to such 
persons the branches of the business best suited to their circumstances. Thus, 
on a site suitable for poultry within one of the areas where exclusive market 
poultry keeping can always be made profitable, eggs and poultry will from 
