CHAPTER XXXI. 
THE POULTRY RUN. 
VEN the hen is intensively cultivated these 
KE days, and that makes room for her and 
her chicks on the small patch. It is 
perfectly amazing how little the ordinary farmer 
knows about poultry, although he has raised 
some, more or less, from time immemorial. 
The modern farmer is too wise to be caught 
with the extravagant stories found in some poul- 
try papers, of the profits to be made from a 
hennery, though at the same time he is not 
wise enough to believe that with careful atten- 
tion and improved methods, the hennery can 
be made to pay well. 
It is for the benefit of the farmer who is neither 
too wise nor too ignorant to be taught, as well 
as for the villager and the intensive farmer, that 
this chapter is written.* 
* Notse.—This chapter has been specially revised by Milo M. 
Hastings, the author of a new and thorough work, “‘The Dollar 
Hen.” Mr. Hastings was formerly the commercial poultry expert 
of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
It will be impossible in the brief space available to go into detail 
concerning all the up-to-date methods of poultry production. I can 
only call attention to the system by which the industry is being 
modernized and by which, also, it may be made to yield handsome 
profits to.the intelligent and aggressive poultryman. 
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