150 AN EGG FARM. 



revolution in intensive poultry keeping. By the use of 

 this invention, the greatest objections to keeping poul- 

 try in confinement disappear, and by means of the new 

 system yarded birds produce strongly vitalized eggs, 

 that hatch well and make healthy, vigorous chicks. Now, 

 even in quite narrow quarters, both the parent stock and 

 the young chicks can be made to take as much exercise 

 as they naturally do when running at large, and more, 

 in fact. The apparatus is to birds in confinement what 

 the wheel is to a squirrel in a cage. 



As we have pointed out, it is utterly impracticable to 

 mix straw and feed together by hand often enough to 



FIG. 53. WEEDER AND SOIL STIRRING IMPLEMENT. 



keep the flock of fowls well employed. It must be done 

 often or it will not amount to much, and it must also be 

 done right ; that is, there must be a correct proportion 

 between the quantity of grain and the quantity of straw. 

 If too much straw is used, the fowls become discouraged 



