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Show RlLTm PROFITS FROM THE CHICKENS H No Place Where Business Can Be 1 Mado 8o Profitable as When Con- HHHH ducted as Side Line on Farm. Hl Specialized poultry farms aro bo- bII coming moro numerous each year. Iq Hl many cases theso aro paying good re- Hl turns on tho monoy invested, but their fll effect on tho supply of eggs and IHH poultry for ohr lnrgo markets is but H as a drop in the ocean. It Is for the H small flocks of CO to 300 fowls upon tho fnrms ns a sido lino that wo must dopend for our supply of poultry prod- H ucts In tho future nB In tho past, writes H Prof. P. Q. Holdon In tho Farm and H Homo Poultry Annual. No other H branch of ngriculturo Ib represented on H so many fnrms. Tho consus for 1910 H shows that 88 por cent, of all farms H reported keoplng poultry. H In no caso can tho bualnesH bo H mndo bo profltablo as wheru It is con ducted nB a sido lino of general farm. H lng. It Is posslblo to allow chickens H to rnngo through many crops that are H grown on tho farm without dnmngo to H tho crops and by such practico secure H doublo returnn from tho samo pioca ' Orchards Of com fields aro ideal for this purposo and if the presence of tho H chickonB in them is beneficial rather H than detrimental, as they will destroy H Prize-Winning White Leghorns. '.H largo numbers of insects injurious to tho crops. Tho movable colony house &, H which la rapidly coming into general m H uso on tho farm makes It possible to m' H scatter tho chickens out ovor tho ThU jnnthod, le specially valuablo " Tor handling tkyetomteU.,8wb-i-1--al-' kH gives froedom to tho birds. Tho nWtt,33S . H Bult will bo stronger, moro vigorous ', birds. By moving the houso closo to X H tho fields whero small grains havo H boon harvested tho birds aro ablo to i V - c H turn Into profltablo gains the sholled -H 9K H grain and scattored heads which ro- B H main on the Hold. S,"-'B |