Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY, WITH A VIEW TO PROFIT. CHAPTER I. HOUSES, BUNS, 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 B of this section are not intended simply to be read and approved, but the directions given are such as are proper for the circumstances therein referred to, and are the price to be paid for health and eggs. For instance : when it is said that the roosting-house should be cleansed daily, it is meant that it should be done. When it is said that fowls in confinement should have daily fresh vegetable food, it is intended to convey that such food must be regularly given; and so on. Let the reader deal fairly by us and by his poultry; so will the latter deal fairly...