94 POULTRY CULTURE 



projected in a region where winters are long and severe than where 

 the shorter winters, sometimes with little snow, tempt the poultry 

 keeper to leave the houses in the fields and thus save the labor 

 of twice moving them. 



Temporary range. A common practice of breeders who keep 

 their breeding stock under intensive conditions is to put all hens 

 in one large flock at the close of the breeding season, and from that 

 time until winter give them range under conditions as nearly natural 

 as possible. Often the land used for this purpose is rough, over- 

 grown with weeds and brush, swampy, etc., — of such character 

 that it is not desirable to use it for permanent yards or for any 

 purpose that necessitates much traveling over it. It is a matter of 

 common observation that hens thus turned out to pasture not only 

 store up vitality for the following breeding season but frequently 

 lay well all through the summer and fall. 



Weakest point in intensive systems. The common obstacle to 

 the development of branches of poultry culture under intensive 

 conditions supplied with stock from flocks kept under extensive 

 conditions is the uncertainty of the source of supply. Many poultry 

 keepers engaged in producing market eggs have tried to have their 

 stock grown on farms, but usually with most unsatisfactory results. 



