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with no bad results. I would prefer giving water if the supply is clean 

 and constant. 



The chicks are taken from the out-door brooders at from six to 

 eight weeks of age, according to the weather. A small coop (Fig. 9) 

 is set in front of the brooder, so that the chickens cannot get to the 

 brooder entrance, the result being that they get into the coop A. After 

 a day or two take away your brooder, and the coop can then be moved 

 daily to fresh ground. This will keep the coop clean. When the chicks 

 get too large for the coop A, which will be in about ten weeks, they 

 are put into coop B. (Fig. 10. j The same process is gone througn 

 with coop B. It is set in front of coop A, so as to obstruct the en- 

 trance: and the chicks then go into the coop B, and soon take to the 

 roost. Coop B will roost 20 chicks until full grown. Try to keep 

 your chickens roosting in the open air as long as possible. Never 

 house them in close, stuffy houses. If you do they will be sure to go 

 wrong, become weak, and be of little or no value, either as breeders 

 or ei;g-producers. Where an indoor brooder is used in a colony house, 

 the brooder is removed from the house and the chickens roost in colony 

 house until they are ready to market. 





Fig 10. Coop B.— Length, tj ft. : width, 2 ft. 6 in. : height in front, 2 ft. 4 in. : height at back, 18 in. 



We use mostly colony houses similar to the one to the left of the 

 picture. This house could be improved by having a portion of the front 

 made of cotton. 



The house is eight feet long by six feet wide. It is six feet six 

 inches high in front and four feet six inches at the back. Two 4x4 

 scantling are placed under the building and act as runners so that the 

 building may be moved about. 



The door is at the back of the building and is four feet wide ; 

 this allows a brooder to be taken in or out. 



Breeding Market Fowls. 



When looking over dressed poultry in some of the exporter's shops, 

 I have often thought how easy it would be to improve the appearance 

 of much of the ordinary poultry, and some of that which is specially 

 fattened, if the birds were bred to a proper type. I have spent much 



