. Practical poultry production . Poultry. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY 19 the farmers of this community depend upon poultry and eggs produced almost entirely for their income. At the present time there is in the making a third poultry community located at Vineland, New Jersey. Here in the past few years the keeping of poultry has increased from a point where a few thousand fowls were kept until at the present time it is estimated that over three hundred thousand Single Comb White Leghorns are maintained principally. Figure -A well-managed back-yard flock will aid considerably in reducing living ex
. Practical poultry production . Poultry. THE POULTRY INDUSTRY 19 the farmers of this community depend upon poultry and eggs produced almost entirely for their income. At the present time there is in the making a third poultry community located at Vineland, New Jersey. Here in the past few years the keeping of poultry has increased from a point where a few thousand fowls were kept until at the present time it is estimated that over three hundred thousand Single Comb White Leghorns are maintained principally. Figure -A well-managed back-yard flock will aid considerably in reducing living expenses. for the production of eggs for the New York markets. Back-yard flocks. Another branch of the industry that has made wonderful strides in the past decade and which now plays an important part in food production is that of thousands of small flocks of fowls on town and village lots and in city back yards. Although as individual flocks their output is relatively small, at the same time their aggre-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lamon, Harry M; Kinghorne, J. W. (Joseph William). St. Paul, Minn. : Press of Webb Publishing Co.
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