. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . withmany compartments and keep-ing the fowls yarded in smallflocks. This plan was usuallyabandoned within a few years, be-cause, while it worked very wellin the winter, when the farmerhad time to give the hens extracare, they were not as well offin the summer, when the farmerhad to give attention to his field crops first. Such was the usualcourse of development of farm methods of managing fowls. The colony system. But occasionally a farmer whose flockhad outgrown its accommodations as one flock would divide it,moving a part to another pl
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . withmany compartments and keep-ing the fowls yarded in smallflocks. This plan was usuallyabandoned within a few years, be-cause, while it worked very wellin the winter, when the farmerhad time to give the hens extracare, they were not as well offin the summer, when the farmerhad to give attention to his field crops first. Such was the usualcourse of development of farm methods of managing fowls. The colony system. But occasionally a farmer whose flockhad outgrown its accommodations as one flock would divide it,moving a part to another place on the farm, and so was able tomaintain the increase in numbers without adopting laboriousmethods. This idea was carried out most systematically andmost extensively in the vicinity of Little Compton, RhodeIsland, where the Rhode Island Red fowl originated. The firstsettlers in this part of Rhode Island built large stone poultryhouses like that shown in Fig. 98. Some of these old build-ings are still used for poultry. This district is most favorably. Fig. 98. Stone poultry house abouttwo hundred years old. on farm ofF. W. C. Almv. Tiverton FourCorners, Rhode Island MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS IOI situated for poultry keeping. The snow rarely lies long, andthe birds can be outdoors nearly every day in winter as well asin summer. Being near thefashionable summer resort ofNewport, the farmers hereearly found a large demandfor their eggs and poultry athigh prices in the summertime, when in many placesthe prices were low. Thenin the winter they could sendeggs to Boston and Provi-dence, which were the bestmarkets in the country forthis class of produce. So these farmers had every inducementto devise a practical method of indefinitely increasing theirstocks of fowls. The plan which they adopted was very simple.
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