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cessible to the growing chicks. A corn-field is ideal. It not only 

 furnishes the shade but also the hugs and worms and protection 

 from hawks and crows. 



Separate the cockerels and pnllets at the earliest possible mo- 

 ment, selecting the promising cockerels for breeders and fitting 

 the rest for market before they have cost more than they will 

 bring. The early hatched cockerel will bring fifty cents when 

 he weighs a ponnd and a half. Later on when he weighs from 

 two and a half to three ponnds he will bring about fifty cents. 

 After he has been kept until the holiday time, weighing about 

 four or five pounds, he will bring in the neighborhood of fifty 

 cents, then why give him that extra feed and care. 



The pullet that for any reason is checked in her growth will 

 never make a profitable hen. They should be kept growing and 

 forced to the earliest possible production consistent with the ma- 

 turitv of their bodies. 



IIOUSIIS'G 



Up to within a comparatively recent period, a visit to any 

 given number of poultry houses would have shown almost if not 



quite an equal number 

 of designs, but we are 

 coming to a type of lay- 

 ing house which is be- 

 coming very prevalent 

 and is proliably destined 

 to become more so. A 

 hen beino- the hic-hest 

 temperatured animal on 

 the farm requires the 

 most oxygen to main- 

 tain tliat temperature. 

 About a do/eii years ago when tlic muslin ventilation was 

 first used it was looked upon to solve the ventilating prob- 

 lem l)ut since that time experiments have shown that a house 

 with the entire front al)ove from two feet to tliree feet 

 from the floor is preferable to tlic one having tlie muslin 

 front. In tliis type of house the muslin curtain is furnished to 

 be closed only during stormy weather. This type of house also 



Fig. rjs. 



White Wyandotte Cock and 

 Hen 



