MANAGEMENT OF FOWI^S 



situated for poultry keeping. The snow J rarely "lie's long, and 



the birds can be outdoors nearly every day in winter as well as 



in summer. Being near the 



fashionable summer resort of 



Newport, the farmers here 



early found a large demand 



for their eggs and poultry at 



high prices in the summer 



time, when in many places 



the prices were low. Then 



in the winter they could send 



eggs to Boston and Provi- 



FIG. 99. Rhode Island colony poultry 

 house for thirty-five fowls 



dence, which were the best 



markets in the country for 



this class of produce. So these farmers had every inducement 



to devise a practical method of indefinitely increasing their 



stocks of fowls. The plan which they adopted was very simple. 



FIG. 100. Colony poultry houses on Rhode Island farm 



Small houses, which could easily be moved from place to 

 place with a two-horse team, and which would accommodate 

 from twenty-five to thirty-five fowls, were made and distributed 



