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"Whatever may be the dividing line betvireen 

 extensive and intensive poultry farming, or what- 

 ever the point one merges into the other, it will be 

 readily assented to that a poultry farm of 100 

 acres, occupied by from 1,000 to 5,000 hens, is 

 extensive poultry farming. On the other hand, it 

 will also be understood that a farm of four acres, 

 on which 1,000 or 3,000 hens are kept, is intensive 

 poultry farming, and it must be conducted under 

 intensive methods. 



" At what point by extending the acreage without 

 increasing the flock, or increasing the flock with- 

 out extending the acreage, a farm becomes more 

 extensive on the one hand or intensive on the other, 

 may be open to debate. Poultry keeping must neces- 

 sarily be intensive on two or three acres, where the 

 owner depends upon the products of the poultry 

 yards for a living for himself and family. Any 

 poultry farm up to ten acres, where enough fowls 

 are kept to keep a family, will require more or less 

 intensive methods. 



" Probably the best way to define an extensive 

 poultry farm would be on the basis of so many 

 fowls per acre, or on an acreage basis. Fifty fowls 

 per acre or less would certainly come under the 

 extensive system, and it may be that the limit could 

 be increased to 100 per acre. When, however, we 

 reach 100 per acre we are getting to a point where 

 the poultryman must resort to artificial methods, 



