50 * roultry Yard, 



artificial, or made ground, cannot be dis- 

 pensed with, for a poultry yard, where rear^ 

 iog is made an object upon any considerable 

 scale ; since upon damp and boggy soils, not 

 only will the greater part of the broods be an- 

 nually subject to disease and mortality, but 

 tlje cocks and hens tliemselves will be fre- 

 quently affected, to the great impediment of 

 the business of the breeding season. Where 

 it is not held v/ortli while to make any ex- 

 traordinary accommodations for poultry, and 

 tlie risk taken, enough may yet be preser- 

 ved for family convenience and to repay 

 the trifling expence. But no considerable 

 stock can be kept, far less any profit made 

 upon it, upon an unfavourable soil, inde- 

 pendently of attention to needful local con- 

 veniencies. 



Whether or not the poultry be suffered 

 to range at large, and particularly to take 

 the benefit of the farm-yard, a separate and 

 well-fenced yard or court must be pitched 

 upon. The foundation should be laid with 

 chalk, or bricklayer's mbbish, the .surface 

 to consist of sandy gravel, considerable 



