. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. Figure 5. An illustration showing good manage-ment,, cleanliness, and pure bred stock. The arrow in-dicates provision made for clean water, grit, andoyster shells. Figure 6. A contrast----- poor management,no sunlight or ventilation, dirty yard, and apoor bred flock. ~ ::? ..- - - ---- ? 21. cessful management of poultry. Ninety-five per cent of the undesir-able and mismanaged places were found under the direct supervisionof women. The back yard breeders, through either ignorance or careless-ness, did no
. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. Figure 5. An illustration showing good manage-ment,, cleanliness, and pure bred stock. The arrow in-dicates provision made for clean water, grit, andoyster shells. Figure 6. A contrast----- poor management,no sunlight or ventilation, dirty yard, and apoor bred flock. ~ ::? ..- - - ---- ? 21. cessful management of poultry. Ninety-five per cent of the undesir-able and mismanaged places were found under the direct supervisionof women. The back yard breeders, through either ignorance or careless-ness, did not appear to exercise any judgment in the choice and se-lection of breeds. The majority of fowls consisted of scrubs. Thepure bred varieties most widely represented were Barred PlymouthRocks, Rhode Island Reds, and White Leghorns. The number of malebirds to the flock varied somewhat, but on the whole was too was not infrequently found that full a third of the flock consist-ed of roosters. This was accounted for by the fact that, while henswere kept solely for egg production, the roosters were maintainedfor table purposes. Notwithstanding the fact that fully one-half of the totalnumber of flocks were kept under unsanitary conditions, t
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