60 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 



in and out. On one side the laths are cut off six inches 

 from the ground, and a strip, A, three inches wide, is 

 secured so as to be raised as the chicks grow larger, to 

 permit them to pass under it. If made ten feet long 

 and five feet wide, it will be large enough to feed 200 

 chicks. The frames for the sides and ends may be at- 

 tached to each other by pins, or hooks and staples, and 

 when not in use they may be taken apart and packed 

 away until again required. 



REARING EARLY CHICKENS. 



Warmth is the only requisite for rearing early 

 chickens, which one finds it difficult to provide early in 

 the season. But there is an easy way to furnish this for 

 the early broods, where the other conveniences are con- 



sistent with it; that is, where the poultry-house is tight 

 and warm, and is kept clean and free from vermin, and 

 where the fowls are fed judiciously. The illustration 

 (Fig. 42) represents an annex to a poultry-house, made 

 at very little cost. It was built at the end of the poul- 



