. Our domestic birds; . ,there were frequent exceptions. The housewife who is thrifty always manages affairsabout the house betterthan the majority of herneighbors, and in olderpoultry literature thereare occasional state-ments of the methodsof those who were mostsuccessful with theirfowls, which we maywell suppose were meth-ods that had been usedfor centuries. Modern conditions andmethods. About a hun-dred years ago people inEngland and Americabegan to give more at-tention to poultry keep-ing, and to study how tomake poultry (especially fowls) more profitable. This interest inpoultry arose pa
. Our domestic birds; . ,there were frequent exceptions. The housewife who is thrifty always manages affairsabout the house betterthan the majority of herneighbors, and in olderpoultry literature thereare occasional state-ments of the methodsof those who were mostsuccessful with theirfowls, which we maywell suppose were meth-ods that had been usedfor centuries. Modern conditions andmethods. About a hun-dred years ago people inEngland and Americabegan to give more at-tention to poultry keep-ing, and to study how tomake poultry (especially fowls) more profitable. This interest inpoultry arose partly because of the increasing interest in agricul-tural matters and partly because eggs and poultry were becomingmore important articles of food. Those who studied the situationfound that there were two ways of making poultry more profit-able. One way, which was open to all, was to give the birds bet-ter care ; the other was to replace the ordinary fowls with fowlsof an improved breed. So those who were much interested. Fig. 22. Black Langshan cock. (Photographfrom Urban Farms, Buffalo, New York) FOWLS 41 began to follow the practices of the most successful poultrykeepers that they knew, and to introduce new breeds, andgradually great changes were made in the methods of produc-ing poultry and in the types of fowls that were kept in placeswhere the interest in poultry was marked. Nearly all farmers now keep quite large flocks of farmers make the most of their living from poultry, andin some places nearly every farm is devoted primarily to theproduction of eggs and ofpoultry for the table. Fowlsreceive most attention, al-though, as we shall see, someof the largest and most profit-able farms are engaged inproducing ducks. In thesuburbs of cities and in vil-lages all over the land manypeople keep more fowls nowthan the average farmer didin old times. These city poul-try keepers often give a greatdeal of time to their fowlsand still either lose moneyon them or make very
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