This silent, tinted film gives a look at chicken cultivation in the 1920s or early 1930s, long before factory farming became common. The film begins with shots at the farm of Marcus McKnight, Sr. of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. McKnight was raising pedigree chickens on his property near the Carlisle Barracks. At :57 waterfowl are shown on a lake. At 2:46 the film notes that McKnight’s chick loss is less than 5%, which was apparently a low number in that era. McKnight’s extensive coops and barns are shown. At 3;41 the film switches to Brandon, Florida, which at the time was apparently the home of a very successful chicken farm. At 4:16 Carl Mueller, the superintendant, is shown. The farm’s modern layout is shown starting at 5:00 with individual colony units shown at 6:20. At 7:46 a sign is shown for the Kingsway Brand of Broilers and Eggs. At 7:54 the farm of W.J. Ackerson of Lafayette, New Jersey if shown, with chickens shown on the range at 9:00. At 9:30 Ruehle’s Sunnyside Farm in Pleasant Valley, New York is shown. At 10:10 a stock trapnested and pedigree bred bird is shown as well as a flock of 300 egg hens.

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