64 A REVOLUTION IN EGG PRODUCTION 



a family of four, but these leavings do not count for much in 

 a flock of this size. 



The average cost of feed was $1.85 per hundred pounds 

 for the year. 



The space occupied consisted of yards and houses as 

 shown in the accompanying diagram. Fowls had been kept 

 continuously in these yards for eleven years, and the soil, 

 being a black clay loam, which bakes easily, is not an ideal 

 one for poultry keeping. 



