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21. Land — How Much and What Kind ? — For the 



production of broilers little land is required. During 

 winter and early spring in northerly latitudes a little strip 

 in front of the brooder house is all that can be used for the 

 broilers, and even this can be used only in favorable 

 weather. A great many small broilers are grown entirely 

 indoors. Thus it will be seen that the installation of 

 facilities for the production of thousands of small broilers- 

 would take only a small area of land, and broiler raising as 

 an adjunct to other lines of poultry culture, or as an 

 adjunct of some other business, can be carried on for a 

 time on a site which gives room only for the necessary 

 buildings. 



The objection to establishing a plant on so limited a site 

 is that the equipment cannot be used to good advantage for 

 other purposes, and hence will stand idle or be used with 

 little profit during a considerable part of each year. The 

 broiler season is a short season. The same equipment 

 used for early broilers can also be used for summer chick- 

 ens if there is land enough to give them the large yards 

 they should have. If one attempts to run both winter and 

 summer chickens in the same house with such small yards 

 as are adequate for winter conditions, he may do very well 

 for a few seasons, but as the ground becomes tainted, his 

 chickens cease to thrive, and usually the poultryman whose 

 plant is in this condition struggles through several unsatis- 

 factory seasons before he realizes just where the trouble 

 lies. 



For a large stock of roasters considerable land is required, 

 for the stock is mostly about half grown when spring opens, 

 and as it is not to be marketed for several months, the 



