POULTRY KEEPING AND KEEPERS 



point only, has a lack of artistic perception. Beau- 

 tiful though ponds, shrubbery and orchards may 

 Poultry for be, tne Y are merely still-life etchings 

 the Country until poultry is introduced. Have 

 Home ducks for your brooks or irrigat- 



ing ditches, swans on your ponds, peacocks in 

 the formal gardens, pheasants among the shrub- 

 bery, chickens in colony houses scattered through- 

 out the orchard, turkeys roaming through the 

 meadows and your place will become a home in- 

 stead of a show place. Consider them as you 

 would wide porches, or any other feature which 

 will add to the livable atmosphere of your home, 

 even though you disregard the utilitarian side of 

 the matter. 



All poultry keeping for profit may be divided 

 into two main classes market and " fancy " poul- 

 _.._ try business. There are three kinds 



Branches of of market-poultry plants: those that 

 Market Poultry produce eggs, those that produce meat, 

 Keeping and u com bi n ation " plants. 



The first kind cater exclusively to an egg trade, 

 and usually keep a breed that will lay the most eggs, 

 with little or no regard to the size or market quali- 

 fications of the stock. The second class of plants 

 produce " squabs," broilers, roasters, or capon 

 fowls, marketing no eggs, but keeping only a suffi- 

 cient number of adult fowls to supply them with 

 eggs for hatching their products. The combina- 



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