THE POULTRY INDUSTRY 



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of Agriculture, the state agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations have of late recognized the growing impor- 

 tance of the poultry industry, and by their experimental 

 and educational work have done much to spread informa- 

 tion on this subject. 



Intensive poultry sections. Something of the present 

 development in poultry keeping can be realized from the 

 development of certain communities which depend almost 



Figure 5. — Poultry students constructing poultry appliances. 

 (Courtesy Cornell University) 



entirely upon poultry activities for their prosperity. Thus, 

 for example, in the United States there is the Petaluma dis- 

 trict in Cahfornia. This has an area with a radius of ap- 

 proximately sixteen miles where about a million and a half 

 hens, principally Single Comb White Leghorns, are kept 

 for lajdng purposes. 



Another great poultry community in this country is 

 the district known as Little Compton in Rhode Island. 

 Here the fowls kept are principally Rhode Island Reds, and 



