WILD FOWL. 139 



POULTRY. 



Wild Fowl. 



IN the jungles or woods of India there is found 

 to-day a wild fowl somewhat like, in colouring 

 and appearance, to the domesticated game fowl. 



When Europe was in an uncultivated con- 

 dition, when there stretched far and wide tracts 

 of forest and wood, with dense undergrowth of 

 bracken and bramble, uncleared* and unclaimed 

 by man, a wild fowl similar in appearance to 

 that found to-day in the jungles of India, lived 

 and wandered without restraint. 



From this wild fowl it is said that most of our 

 domesticated fowls have descended. 



Had it not been for man's needs, the original 

 wild fowl would still have wandered here and 

 there as it desired, and in appearance and habits 

 would have remained unaltered, and then no 

 Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte, or Buff Orpington 

 would have tamely wandered in our stackyards 

 and poultry runs. 



Man at one time lived and wandered as a 

 hunter. When he exhausted the game in one 

 district he just simply moved on to another 

 district, and as the world was so thinly popu- 

 lated there was nothing to hinder him. 



To live in this fashion required extensive 



