. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. mpracticable tohave had the poultry house face in a direction other than that inwhich the dwelling house faced. The majority of breeders made no provisions for proper cases where barns served as a poultry house, the nests were fre-quently found up in the attic, in the manger, or in some dark, dirtycorner of the building. Nests were sometimes also found in the cor-ner of the yard some distance away from the poultry house. Nobodyemployed the trap nest system, no doubt because most breeders do nothave t
. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. mpracticable tohave had the poultry house face in a direction other than that inwhich the dwelling house faced. The majority of breeders made no provisions for proper cases where barns served as a poultry house, the nests were fre-quently found up in the attic, in the manger, or in some dark, dirtycorner of the building. Nests were sometimes also found in the cor-ner of the yard some distance away from the poultry house. Nobodyemployed the trap nest system, no doubt because most breeders do nothave time enough to devote to the system. The cost of building poultry houses varied considerably, rang-ing from $ to #50. An instance was found in which 12 pure bredBrahmas were kept in a house built out of ordinary packing price of the material including the labor of construction, cameto $ The birds were healthy, vigorous, and apparently com-fortable. An illustration of the house and flock is seen in figure10. FEEDING. Table scraps, consisting mainly of bread, meat,. Figure 10. An illustration showing ordinary packing cases, costing $, serving as a poultry birds are healthy, vigorous, and apparently happy 30. potatoes, bones, etc., are the feed most popular among back yardpoultry keepers. The popularity of the feed is due to the factthat these scraps, usually wasted, now become a valuable and econ-omical by-product; for instead of being thrown into the garbage orfed to the dogs, a rather common practice hitherto, they are fed tothe flock, and thus are utilized to bring a financial return in theform of meat and eggs. But,while table scraps were found to be valuable and econom-ical, they were often kept on hand so long, before being used asfeed, that they became obnoxious and a menace to the health notonly of the flock but also of the people. Many breeders followedthe method of feeding table scraps by collecting them (free ofcharge) from near-by board
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