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Show Chicken Farmers Few The average urbanite, when allowing allow-ing his thoughts to dwell on the Idea of taking up fanning, usually considers con-siders first the Idea of poultry farming. farm-ing. The poultry farmer, however. Is comparatively rare among agriculturists. agri-culturists. A census taken by the Department of Agriculture discloses that out of the 6.000,000 farms In the United States only about 22,000 have flocks of 1,000 or more chickens. chick-ens. About 5,000.000 farms have-less have-less than 200 chickens. |