250 MY POULTRY DAY BY DAY 
has been through all the ages a source of food to man, and likely 
in the future to be even more serviceable and subservient to his 
uses. 
The fowl is stupid but easily controlled. I have only possessed 
one bird that was fairly mad. It was its delight to break out of 
the wire run first thing every morning, and it invariably spent the 
rest of the day running up and down the outside of the wire en- 
closure trying vainly to get back again. Truly it was a vexatious 
bird, but it had one redeeming virtue—it laid an egg every day ! 
To such a fowl much may be forgiven. 
