. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 20. White-Faced Black Spanish cockerel(Photograph from R. A. Rowan, Los Angeles,California) FOWLS 39 Throughout all times and in all lands the common domesticbirds have usually been the special charge of the women andchildren of a household. In some countries long-establishedcustom makes the poultry the personal property of the wife. Atraveler in Nubia about seventy years ago states that there the. Fig. 21. Silver-Spangled Polish cock and hen. (Photograph fromLeontine Lincoln Jr., Fall River, Massachusetts) henhouse, as well as the
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 20. White-Faced Black Spanish cockerel(Photograph from R. A. Rowan, Los Angeles,California) FOWLS 39 Throughout all times and in all lands the common domesticbirds have usually been the special charge of the women andchildren of a household. In some countries long-establishedcustom makes the poultry the personal property of the wife. Atraveler in Nubia about seventy years ago states that there the. Fig. 21. Silver-Spangled Polish cock and hen. (Photograph fromLeontine Lincoln Jr., Fall River, Massachusetts) henhouse, as well as the hens, belonged to the wife, and if aman divorced his wife, as the custom permitted, she took allaway with her. The flocks of fowls were usually small in old times. It wasonly in areas adjacent to large cities that a surplus of poultry oreggs could be disposed of profitably, and as the fowls werealmost always allowed the run of the dooryard, the barnyard, 4o OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS and the outbuildings, the number that could be tolerated, evenon a large farm, was limited. As a rule the fowls were expectedto get their living as they could, but in this they were not somuch worse off than other live stock, or than their owners. But,while this was the ordinary state of the family flock of fowls,there were frequent exceptions. The housewife who is thrifty always manages affairsabout the house betterthan the majority of herneighbors, and in olderpoultry literatur
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