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been noticed that Leghorn and Minorca hens will 

 remain peaceably in the yard in which they have 

 been reared, but if moved to other yards will give 

 the owner more or less trouble by flying over 

 the fences, although the latter may be as high 

 as seven feet. 



In latitudes where it is not necessary to provide 

 warm houses for protection against freezing, many 



Fig, 49. Poultry houses and yards 

 West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. 



small portable houses in a field of considerable 

 size are preferred to more pretentious stationary 

 houses with permanent yards. It is true that 

 the labor of the attendant in feeding is some- 

 what increased, but considerable labor is saved 

 in cleaning and cultivating the land by merely 

 moving the buildings a short distance. The 

 houses are usually constructed on rude and in- 

 expensive runners, and are moved from place 

 to place by means of horses. 



