POULTRY KEEPING AND KEEPERS 
point only, has a lack of artistic perception. Beau- 
tiful though ponds, shrubbery and orchards may 
Poultry for be, they 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- 
erent try business. There are three kinds 
Branches of Of market-poultry plants: those that 
Market Poultry produce eggs, those that produce meat, 
Eeeping and “ combination” 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 sufh- 
cient number of adult fowls to supply them with 
eggs for hatching their products. The combina- 
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