The western poultry guide . J. H. Davis HE world moves fashions of todayare the follies of to-morrow. It is not farto tallow candles andstage coaches. Not so far the tallow candles aresuperseded by kerosene, gas andelectricity. The stage coachesof yesterday are superseded bythe palace cars of the present. We travel fast. Fifty yearsago poultry culture scarcely hada name. Then came the newbreeds of fowls from over theseas and Americans began mak-ing new breeds themselves, and with the advent of the breeds of fancy feathers have come all sorts ofpoultry appliances and invent
The western poultry guide . J. H. Davis HE world moves fashions of todayare the follies of to-morrow. It is not farto tallow candles andstage coaches. Not so far the tallow candles aresuperseded by kerosene, gas andelectricity. The stage coachesof yesterday are superseded bythe palace cars of the present. We travel fast. Fifty yearsago poultry culture scarcely hada name. Then came the newbreeds of fowls from over theseas and Americans began mak-ing new breeds themselves, and with the advent of the breeds of fancy feathers have come all sorts ofpoultry appliances and inventions, including incubators, brooders andso on, until now, we have the big hatcheries which turn out day-oldchicks while you wait. I could go on and write chapters on thebeginning, progress and present of poultry culture, but as this bookis an educational one, I shall waste no time in glittering generalities,but begin at once on the task assigned me. Poultry house construction depends much on climate, but I am anadvocate of
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