MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS 



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where arrangements are made with a view to giving them the 

 full advantage of the good conditions which the place affords. 

 To a novice in fancy-poultry culture the number of chickens 

 grown by expert fanciers seems very small for the equipment 

 and the land used, but the old fancier has learned in the costly 

 school of competition, by the bitter experience of defeat, that 



FIG. 121. Summer quarters for poultry. (Photograph from New York State 

 Agricultural College at Cornell University) 



in growing exhibition poultry it pays to give the birds a great 

 deal more room, both indoors and outdoors, than is needed 

 simply to get quick growth and good size. Elegance of form, 

 depth and brilliance of color, and the indefinable qualities of 

 style and finish that distinguish the high-class exhibition fowl 

 are obtained in a much larger proportion of birds when they 

 are given a great deal more room than they apparently need. 



