The Farm-poultry . 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 wo
The Farm-poultry . 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-. A Tennessee Poultry Farm. ning, Prof. Graham and I were both invited to speak, andboth urged the advantages of extensive methods and thenecessity for limiting the stocks kept on restricted of those present approved our views, but I dontthink that the majority did — which, in this case, hap-pens to be their misfortune, and not ours. The weakpoint in the poultry boom in the South is that it is prin-cipally confined to the cities and towns, and is develop-ing along intensive lines. Whether these will have thesame influence on farm methods there, as the less inten-sive methods of the last decade of the last century had onfarm poultry keeping in the North, remains to be seen. Tuesday morning, still in company with Prof. Gra-ham, I went to Richmond to spend the day at theVirginia State Fair. The exhibits of poultry and of allkinds of live stock here were good. So were the exhibitsof grain, tobacco and other farm crops — many of whichwere arranged by counties. In the fruit exh
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