Poultry and the Meat Problem 3 



free to carry essentials between the more distant 

 ports, and the fleets of the Teuton allies will be 

 added once more to the carrjdng trade. 



This can mean one thing only — cheap grain be- 

 fore very long. 



In the face of a situation where meat is high and 

 likely to remain so, while cheap grain is an early 

 probability, there is a solution to the meat prob- 

 lem which appears at once and clearly: Poultry 

 will supply us almost at once with an abundance of 

 meat, and also of eggs, which in some respects are 

 more valuable than meat itself. Pat, juicy broilers 

 are ready for the table within ten weeks of the day 

 the chick is bom. In two months more the soft 

 roasters follow the broilers, and the pullets of some 

 breeds are beginning to lay. 



Fortunately the common feeling that we cannot 

 have gardens, nor keep hens, unless we have just 

 this or that equipment, has passed away. We 

 know now that we can do these things, and if we 

 wish to stand as patriots we must do them. With 

 a building ten feet square we can house all the 

 poultry a family needs, and on a very few square 

 yards of ground enough chickens can be raised 

 each year to keep the flock up to full quota. 



