1 30 Koops — Feeding H ouses. 



in which they are kept, by living in the 

 natural state, and having the full enjoy- 

 ment of air and exercise: or they are 

 confined during a certain number of weeks, 

 in koops, those fowls which arc soonest 

 ready, being drawn as wanted. It is a 

 common practice with some house-wives, 

 to koop their barn-door fowls for a week 

 or two, under the notion of improving 

 them for the table and increasing their fat; 

 a practice which, however, seldom succeeds, 

 since the fowls generally pine for their loss 

 of Uberty, and slighting their food, lose 

 instead of gaining additional flesh. Such 

 a period, in fact, is too short for them to 

 become accustomed to confinement. 



Feeding houses, at once warm and 

 airy, with earth floors such as have been 

 already described, well raised, and capa- 

 cious enough to accommodate twenty or 

 thirty fowls, have always succeeded best 

 according to my experience. The floor 

 may be slightly littered down, the litter 

 often changed, and the greatest cleanli- 

 ness should be observed. Sandy gravel 



