The Farm-poultry . at is Id hesitate to say. The more I see of poultry inwet situations, the less I advocate the sandy knoll — ex- cept for the house itself, which should be on a compara-tively dry site. At this time, however, the standingwater was not in evidence as it was at my first visit tothe farm last February. Prof. Grabam and I went to Norfolk, Va., Mondayafternoon as the guests of the Tidewater Poultry Associa-tion. A committee of the association composed ofMessrs. B. Corprew, J. D. Griffin and A. E. D. Holden,met us, and in their company we spent the afternoonvisiting poultry yards i
The Farm-poultry . at is Id hesitate to say. The more I see of poultry inwet situations, the less I advocate the sandy knoll — ex- cept for the house itself, which should be on a compara-tively dry site. At this time, however, the standingwater was not in evidence as it was at my first visit tothe farm last February. Prof. Grabam and I went to Norfolk, Va., Mondayafternoon as the guests of the Tidewater Poultry Associa-tion. A committee of the association composed ofMessrs. B. Corprew, J. D. Griffin and A. E. D. Holden,met us, and in their company we spent the afternoonvisiting poultry yards in the city and its immediate sub-urbs. Poultry interests are booming here, but there isfar too much being attempted on an intensive of these little plants on premises that are well outfrom the city, and where adjoining vacant lots are avail-able a part of the time for range, should do very well fora while, but some are entirely too intensive, andhave more money invested in buildings and equipment. Trap Nests Used at the North Carolina Experiment Station. than the probable production would warrant. There aremany poultrymen here who have avoided the extremes,but the general character of operations in the city istoo intensive. At one of the most intensive new plants I saw one ofthe best illustrations I ever saw of the difference betweenchicks grown on new land and those grown on the sameland later in the season. The chickens of the earlierhatches were as nice specimens as one would wish to fancied that they were a little finer drawn and a littlesmaller than they would have been if reared where theyhad plenty of room, but that may have been imagina-tion. They were nice birds. The late hatched chickensfrom the same stock were poor—very poor, and thedifferenc e was more than could reasonably be attributedto difference in condition of stock and to hot weather. At the meeting of the poultry association in the eve-
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