. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. SYSTEMS OF POULTRY KEEPING 93 of market poultry hatched from eggs purchased of farmers who kept their stock under extensive conditions. That is still the com- mon practice, though a few growers keep their own breeding stock. Besides, the business is the growing of " winter chickens," and the stock is off the land during the summer and early fall, thus admitting of regular growing of crops that remove the fertilizer from the soil. At Macdonald College, Quebec, the poultry department has adopted, with very satisfactory results, a
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. SYSTEMS OF POULTRY KEEPING 93 of market poultry hatched from eggs purchased of farmers who kept their stock under extensive conditions. That is still the com- mon practice, though a few growers keep their own breeding stock. Besides, the business is the growing of " winter chickens," and the stock is off the land during the summer and early fall, thus admitting of regular growing of crops that remove the fertilizer from the soil. At Macdonald College, Quebec, the poultry department has adopted, with very satisfactory results, a plan of using colony houses in the summer and drawing them together in the winter (see illustrations). The houses are in fenced fields without division. Fig. 98. Winter arrangement of colony houses at Macdonald College (Photograph from the college) fences, all houses in a field being occupied by fowls of the same variety. This gives the hens good range when they can be out on the ground, and brings the houses together for the season when, in that country, it would be impossible to manage poultry in widely separated colonies. This plan is more likely to be carried out as eggs are most in demand, the newcomer among the growers usually experiences some difficulty in getting good eggs. Many of the growers, after getting out what chickens they need for their own business, use their incubators to hatch eggs for the farmers. Thus during the greater part of the year the eggs from the farm flocks are used for hatching purposes. The income of the growers all comes in during a few months in the spring and early summer. A grower whose credit is good is " carried" by his grain dealer, who perhaps is carried, in turn, by his bank, through the season when expenses are heavy and income nothing. The entire product of the district is marketed by a few men who buy chickens, as they become ready, from the grower, paying cash for the live birds, dressing them, and shipping to the Boston m
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