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of plums have been especially recommended for 

 this purpose: 



Lombard, Burbank, 



Bradsbaw, Coe Golden Drop. 



Peter Yellow Gage, 



There is no reason why an apple orchard 

 may not form a poultry yard to good advantage. 

 Particularly would this be true if the orchard 

 were kept under thorough cultivation, a practice 

 which is now so strongly recommended by the 

 most advanced orchardists. The whole orchard 

 may be inclosed with the poultry fence and the 

 fowls given the run of it. If thought advisable, 

 simple, temporary yards may be provided for the 

 various flocks during a part of the year, when it 

 is desired to keep them separate. At other times 

 all of the flocks may be given the run of the 

 entire orchard. 



When the fowls have once become accustomed 

 to their house or home they will give the owner 

 very little trouble by perching elsewhere, even 

 though they be given the opportunity to do so. 

 Whenever small yards are used, it will be found 

 desirable to place the young birds or pullets in 

 their permanent yards, if possible to do so. Ma- 

 ture fowls, when moved from one pen to another, 

 are more likely to fly over the inclosure than if 

 kept throughout the season in the yard they have 

 learned to recognize as home. It has frequently 



