. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. lities for raising poultry were exceptionally flock consisted of a hundred and thirty birds of mixed breedingand yielded only from six to eight dozen eggs a week. That a higher egg production could not be expected was seenfrom the fact that the flock was in such a poor unhealthy conditionthat a large number of birds died and rotted in the yard, no at-tempt being made to remove or bury them. Figure 3 shows scattered throughout the yard, the skeletonsof birds which were allowed to decay on the ver
. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. lities for raising poultry were exceptionally flock consisted of a hundred and thirty birds of mixed breedingand yielded only from six to eight dozen eggs a week. That a higher egg production could not be expected was seenfrom the fact that the flock was in such a poor unhealthy conditionthat a large number of birds died and rotted in the yard, no at-tempt being made to remove or bury them. Figure 3 shows scattered throughout the yard, the skeletonsof birds which were allowed to decay on the very spot where deathover took them. The rotting carcases served as a food for the re-mainder of the flock and simultaneously infected the healthy birdsand contaminated the ground as well as the whole environment. Then too the rations were restricted entirely to shelled owner did not realize the necessity of varying the feed. He be-lieved that green feed, oyster shells, and grit were unnecessaryand expensive poultry luxuries and consequently made no effortto supply these. 13. Figure 3. Shows some of the birds seeking greenfeed in part of the orchard which is entirely bare ofvegetat ion. 14.
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