. Our domestic birds; . est 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 poultry keeper. Concentration not profitable. Very few people who have nothad experience in growing large numbers of poultry under
. Our domestic birds; . est 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 poultry 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. Fig. 109. Commercial laying house at New Jersey Experiment Station.(Photograph from the station) competition, and that the person who has failed does not wantto see any one else succeed, and so warns others to let suchprojects alone. Those who have been very successful in theirfirst efforts in a small way seldom lack perfect confidence intheir ability to make good on any scale if once they are in aposition to devote themselves entirely to this work. For some seventy or eighty years, but more especially forthe last thirty or forty years, the most conspicuous phase ofthe poultry industry in America has been the widespread andcontinuous movement to develop large plants of this has been no time, for a quarter of a century, when poultryplants of this kind, which to the uninitiated appeared to be highly HO OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS profitable, have not been numerous. The owners of many ofthese plants have claimed that they were making very largeprofits, and
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