. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . ferent varieties as he could find room for or couldafford to buy. Most of these fanciers were city people whothought that, as they kept their fowls in small flocks anyway,they might just as well have as many different kinds of poultry Fig. toS. Colony houses in foreground ; sheds for ducks beyond. (Photographfrom Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture) as they had separate compartments in their poultry yards. Whenrich men with large estates became interested in fancy poultry,they usually built large houses con
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . ferent varieties as he could find room for or couldafford to buy. Most of these fanciers were city people whothought that, as they kept their fowls in small flocks anyway,they might just as well have as many different kinds of poultry Fig. toS. Colony houses in foreground ; sheds for ducks beyond. (Photographfrom Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture) as they had separate compartments in their poultry yards. Whenrich men with large estates became interested in fancy poultry,they usually built large houses containing many small pens, eachwith its small yard, and bought a few of each known far the greater part of the choicest poultry was kept in smallinclosures, and the flocks that laid remarkably well were usuallycity flocks that were given good care. This seemed to a greatmany people to prove that fowls did not need the room andthe freedom which for ages they had enjoyed on farms, andthat the limit of the possible extension of the city method of. MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS 109 keeping fowls in small, bare yards depended in any case uponthe business capacity of the poultry7 keeper. Concentration not profitable. Very few people who have nothad experience in growing large numbers of poultry under bothgood and bad conditions can be made to understand how futileindustry and business methods are when many other thingswhich affect results are unfavorable. Even when the obstaclesto the application of intensive methods on a large scale arepointed out to them, most novices imagine that the difficultiesare exaggerated for the purpose of discouraging them. Theythink that the successful poultry keeper wishes to discourage
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