CHAPTER XX 

 POULTRY 



THE term poultry is used to designate all birds that are in the 

 nature of farm animals or farm live-stock, as chickens, geese, ducks, 

 turkeys. Birds grown merely as pets or fancy animals, or to stock 



roes 



FIG. 6. Parts of a fowl. 



game preserves, are not classed as poultry ; but when any of these 

 birds come to be grown as food animals (as pigeons), they are practi- 

 cally included with other domestic fowls under the general denomi- 

 nation of poultry. 



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