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house capable of holding and mothering 600 

 chicks at the same time. These houses are 

 carefully and systematically cleaned, the 

 manure being mixed with peat-dust and spread 

 on a meadow over the hedge, where a bountiful 

 crop of hay is sure to be harvested. 



In another orchard run the chickens in 

 their second stage of development. Here, 

 of course, they are in cold brooders. This 

 orchard is divided into four sections by wire- 

 netting. In the third field are to be seen the 

 birds maturing for the fattening pen. 



There is another department which is a very 

 useful one to members of the Society. This is 

 the department which buys the poultry food 

 at wholesale prices for members. Surely this 

 part of the Society's work might very well be 

 extended, so that all the feeding stuff required 

 by farmers for cows and pigs and horses, as 

 well as for poultry, might be purchased in this 

 economical manner. 



In the early days of the Society it made 

 the mistake of allowing its members to bring 

 in their own eggs, instead of collecting them 

 systematically as it now does by the co- 

 operative van. Farmers and others would 

 often bring in eggs a week old, so that by the 



