. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 99. Rhode Island colony poultryhouse for thirty-five fowls. Fig. 100. Colony poultry houses on Rhode Island farm Small houses, which could easily be moved from place toplace with a two-horse team, and which would accommodatefrom twenty-five to thirty-five fowls, were made and distributed 102 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS over the farm. Sometimes these houses were placed in pasturesnot suitable for mowing or for cultivation and remained therepermanently, but as a rule they were moved from time to timeto suit the rotation of crops on the farm. A
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 99. Rhode Island colony poultryhouse for thirty-five fowls. Fig. 100. Colony poultry houses on Rhode Island farm Small houses, which could easily be moved from place toplace with a two-horse team, and which would accommodatefrom twenty-five to thirty-five fowls, were made and distributed 102 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS over the farm. Sometimes these houses were placed in pasturesnot suitable for mowing or for cultivation and remained therepermanently, but as a rule they were moved from time to timeto suit the rotation of crops on the farm. As the number ofthese houses on a farm increased, and they were spread over alarger area and sometimes placed in fields and pastures a longdistance from the farmhouse, the work of caring for the fowls,,even bv the simple method used, became too heavy to be doneby man power alone, and a horse and cart, was used in carryingfood and water, collecting eggs, and moving chicks and fowls
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