THE 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, 



WITH A VIEW TO TROFIT. 

 CHAPTER L 



HOUSES, RUNS, AND APPLIANCES NECESSARY TO KEEPING 

 POULTRY WITH SUCCESS. 



FOWLS should not be kept unless proper and regular attention 

 can be given to them ; and we would strongly urge that this 

 needful attention should be personal. Our own experience 

 has taught us that domestics are rarely to be relied upon in 

 many matters essential both to economy and the well-being of 

 the stock ; and, if any objection be made on the score of 

 dignity, we could not only point to high-born ladies who do 

 not think it beneath them to attend to their own fowls, but 

 can aver that even the most menial offices may be performed in 

 any properly-constructed fowl-house without so much as 

 soiling the fingers. If there be children in the family old 

 enough to undertake such matters, they will be both pleased 

 and benefited by attending to what will soon become their 

 pets ; if not, the owner must either attend to them himself, or 

 take such oversight as shall be effectual in securing not only 

 proper care of his birds, but of his own meal and grain. If he 

 be unable or unwilling to do at least as much as this, he had 

 far better not engage in poultry-keeping at all. For the pages 



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