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fence. If the yards are to be cultivated, it will 

 be found advantageous to have them long and 

 comparatively narrow. A yard two rods wide 

 and eight rods long is convenient to cultivate, 



Fig. 48. 

 Poultry houses and yards of C. H. Wyckoff, Groton, N. Y. 



and is very satisfactory for other reasons. As 

 it is found most convenient to have several pens 

 in one house, it is therefore convenient to have 

 several poultry yards side by side, one fence 

 forming the boundary of two yards. See Fig. 26, 



