THE POULTRY INDUSTRY 



19 



the farmers of this community depend upon poultry and 

 eggs produced almost entirely for their income. 



At the present time there is in the making a third poultry 

 community located at Vineland, New Jersey. Here in 

 the past few years the keeping of poultry has increased from 

 a point where a few thousand fowls were kept until at the 

 present time it is estimated that over three hundred thousand 

 Single Comb White Leghorns are maintained principally 



Figure 7.- 



-A well-managed back-yard flock will aid considerably in reducing 



living expenses. 



for the production of eggs for the New York markets. 



Back-yard flocks. Another branch of the industry that 

 has made wonderful strides in the past decade and which 

 now plays an important part in food production is that of 

 thousands of small flocks of fowls on town and village lots 

 and in city back yards. Although as individual flocks 

 their output is relatively small, at the same time their aggre- 



