. The Farm-poultry. require a thousand birds to yiel<la gross profit of £200 per annum, and when estal)lisli-nient charges are paid the balance cannot Ix; the reason why American plants are carried outon so large a scale, as shown in the American repirt,and wliy both in our own and that country speciaHst right time. The aim is to breed the great majority ofchickens in .Vpril, and only a few in May, by whichthe pullets come into profit in the early autumn. Lastwinter, from Xovemljer l.)th to January lotii, an aver-age of 100 eggs per diem were obtained from 000 the neighb
. The Farm-poultry. require a thousand birds to yiel<la gross profit of £200 per annum, and when estal)lisli-nient charges are paid the balance cannot Ix; the reason why American plants are carried outon so large a scale, as shown in the American repirt,and wliy both in our own and that country speciaHst right time. The aim is to breed the great majority ofchickens in .Vpril, and only a few in May, by whichthe pullets come into profit in the early autumn. Lastwinter, from Xovemljer l.)th to January lotii, an aver-age of 100 eggs per diem were obtained from 000 the neighborhood are a large .sanatorium and anasylum, to which a large portion of the produce is .solil. Tlie poultry houses are distributed over the land avail-able, and among the fruit trees. They are well builtami arranged, and in each is a roomy scratciiing shed,generally with a glass front. The roosting compart-ments have a raised floor, in which one scpiare foot oflloor space is allowed for each inmate. This arrange-. Four Compartment Poultn. House at Kattingevoerk. Denmark. poultry farmers are compelled to add to their returns bymeeting the demand for eggs for hatching, day fiMchickens, and stock birds. That they ace valuable inthese directions cannot be denied; in fact, they arenecessary to development of the ponltrj industry, but tomake them profitable the prices obtained must be con-siderably in advance of the ordinary market are descriptions of several farms now in operation. —Five miles from Roskilde, in Zea-land, is the poultry farm called Honseriet ved Katting-evoerk, of Herr Ferslev, the wealthy proprietor oflarge paper mills. This is a breeding center, but thatpart of the work is secondary. The situation is excel-lent, on the southern slope of undulating land withinview of the sea. The soil is light and dry, with a gooilsubstratum, and the place is well equipped. It wasfirst planted with fruit trees, of which there are about9,000 on the twenty
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