HOW I BEGAN AS AN EGG-FARMER 69 
Since writing the above I have received from Mr G. H. Garrad, 
N.D.A., Agricultural Organiser for Kent, a second balance-sheet 
dealing with Mr Hall’s poultry farm, which shows that even more 
profits are being made. 
Pouttry-Krepine as AN Apgunct To Frurt-GRrow1ne 
By G. H. Garrad, N.D.A., Agricultural Organiser for Kent 
The following figures and balance-sheet show the results of a 
year’s working on the smallholding of Mr Wm. Hall, of Grove Hill, 
West Peckham, near Maidstone. Mr Hall and his son of twenty- 
one years of age work a holding of twenty acres of land onjthe 
Kentish Ragstone Formation (Lower Greensand). The land lies 
on the slope of a steep hill facing south, an ideal situation for 
poultry. It is cropped as follows :— 
7% acres Cob Nuts with Standard Apples as top fruit. 
3% acres Gooseberries with Half-Standard Plums and Damsons as 
top fruit. 
3% acres Gooseberries with Half-Standard Apples as top fruit, 
interplanted with Cob Nuts. 
1 acre arable land for Potatoes, Mangolds, Oats, etc., for the 
pony and cow. 
3 acres meadow land. 
14 acres pasture. 
Total 20 acres. 
Nearly all the ground is under fruit, and is kept cultivated 
and free of weeds. The fowls keep the ground well worked 
and the weeds in check, thus saving a considerable amount. of 
cultivation. 
Mr Hall took up poultry-keeping on a commercial scale for the 
first time in 1911, as the result of attending a course of lectures 
given by the County Council Instructor in Poultry-Keeping, and 
ascribes most of his success to the instruction and advice he has 
received from time to time from the same source. He usually 
wins the chief prizes at the annual county competition, and is one 
