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a flock is attached to each farmyard in a village, and 

 runs at liberty, the premises may be as near each other 

 as 8 or 6 rods even, without danger of the birds 

 straying, ordinarily, when once fairly domiciled. This 

 is because the neighbors' premises have a different look, 

 and the buildings, garden, orchard, shrubbery, and 

 fences serve as landmarks to enable them to find their 

 way back. To make each flock upon our tract know its 

 home, we have three styles of buildings, so unlike in 

 color and other respects as to be distinguished by their 

 occupants, and these alternate in such a way as to pre- 

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FIG. 1. DIAGRAM OF EGG FARM. 



vent mistakes. Here the ancient instincts of the birds 

 are our reliance, their powers of discrimination in regard 

 to locality being very strong. It must be kept in mind 

 that any faculty which was of use when the race was 

 wild, may be definitely counted on, unless it has since 

 been persistently bred out. The buildings are white, 

 black, and uncolored, in succession, so that the six 

 immediately adjoining any one are none of them like 

 itself. The white and black coloring are of the cheapest 

 sort lime wash and coal tar. 



