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BULLETIN 1385, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
turns off into his own doorway. During the summer, when the ureas 
of goose pasture are large, the flocks are kept on pasture day and 
nights for months without the return to the village. 
The number of other fowls that can be kept under this village and 
"strip " system of farming appears to be limited, therefore, to the 
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sizes of the courtyard and the stables. The average poultry kept per 
farm under these conditions generally is stated as being from 15 to 
40 head, with but little chance of increase. In Poland, for example, 
the average number of poultry per farm is estimated at 15 head, with 
no possible chance of increasing beyond 30 head per farm. As a 
result of these limitations the aim of the poultry organization 
