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LL550N5 IN POULTRY KEEPING — SECOND SERIES. 



Plot of Original Grooe Hill Poultry Yards. 

 Scale, 1-80 inch to the foot; 1-16 inch equals 5 feet, 



A, continuous house wit)i walk ; K. cook and feed room, office above; R, open shed for storage; C. surplus 

 stock house; P, approach to house A ; 15, cockerel and snrplus stock housi'; A[ and T, large yards; Z, small 

 yard for chicks; Y. Ijhis lorniauure and refuse; small oblong figures in T, Z, and in the field to left of street, 

 indicate roosting coops. 



af;aiii, and none keeping poultry on good farming and garden land who would take land for a 

 poultry farm which could not also be developed lor grass, grain, and vegetable crops. 1 do not 

 advise a beginner in poultry culture who knows little or nothing of farming or gardening to 

 purchase land in a high state of cultivation. I do urge him to purchase land capable of being 

 brought to a high state of cultivation. 



The selection of a place to establish a poultry farm Is usually a tedious process. There are so 

 many points to consider that not a few soon begin to despair of ever getting what will suit 

 them, buy places they do not really want, and begin to adapt their business to the farm. Only 

 a very small proportion of the properties offered as poultry farms or farms suitable for poultry 

 farming are desirable. Those offered cheap almost Invariably have some very pronounced 

 '•outs" about them. They are hard to get to, or in undesirable neighborhoods. In general they 

 fall very far short of the advertised descriptions in every way. But there are here and there 

 properties most satisfactory for poultry farming which may be bought at reasonable to low 

 prices. The finding of one of them may take months, or It may take several years. As a rule 

 It is best not to buy until one finds a place that he is sure will be quite satisfactory. This may 

 mean a postponement of the undertaking, but as most of those going Into poultry keeping 

 expect to stay In it, It is better to put off the beginning until a satisfactory place Is found than 

 to equip a plant on a farm with which the owner Is never satisfied. 



