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opens and shuts numbers of doors, the labor involved 

 will intercept all or most of the profits. 



The experience of the writer is corroborated by that 

 of a great crowd of poultry men, to the effect that yarded 

 fowls, as they have been, not as they might be, are fail- 

 ures as regards hatching and rearing purposes. Such a 

 yard as is usually provided is a delusion and a snare. 

 For a few generations, enough chickens can be hatched 

 and reared to "keep the breed along," but if the young 



FIG. 51. TEDDER FOR STIRRING LITTER. (SEE PAGE 20.) 



as well as the adult birds are confined, the end is exter- 

 mination, unless, as is, happily, generally the case, the 

 birds are allowed range a part of the year, or resort is 

 had to a farm station for an intermediate generation or 

 two, to restore wasted vitality. 



Selling eggs at long prices for hatching from fowls 

 yarded in the usual manner is an offense. For twenty 

 years and longer, while yards have been common, the 

 same old cry has been repeated : "The season has been 

 bad for hatching." But every season always will be a 

 bad one when the layers take insufficient exercise. It 



