Excerpt from Farm Poultry
Poultry Keeping Suited to ail - Poultry keeping is one of the most valuable industries carried on in connection with every well-con ducted farm or rural home. The money-making possibilities of poultry farms may be in doubt, but hens can be made pay on even the poorest farm in the Province. Probably no class of live stock is so widely scattered and universally reared. From the warmest regions of the tropics to the cold, bleak regions of the Yukon, man demands eggs as one Of the staple articles necessary to sustain life. Fresh eggs are pre ferred, therefore the hen has been introduced, and poultry has become adapted and acclimatized to all regions inhabited by civilized man. The flesh of fowls is delicious and nutritious; and eggs, one of the most per fect of human foods, are being used more and more.
In former times poultry keeping was, and in many places is yet, a side issue, a mere incident to general farming, its responsibilities and cares falling on the overworked housewife or some of the very small chil dren. The fowls gathered their own subsistence, stole their nests, brought forth a few chickens, which lived or died according to conditions. The poultry was compelled to roost in the trees, on the fences, or perchance in the barn. About the only care given was to occasionally throw them a little food.
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