A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



but definite, actual points are hard to cata- 

 logue. If you are really interested in fowls, 

 you will feel what I mean better that a hun- 

 dred thousand words could explain; and if 

 you are not, a hundred thousand thousand 

 would not tell you. 



Do not allow cockerels in your flock if 

 you can help it; but when they are young, 

 mistakes are easy. When they occur, rec- 

 tify as soon as discovered. Even chick 

 pullets do not flourish if males are in the 

 flock; therefore keep all the latter in the 

 market enclosure unless, of course, you have 

 been breeding from choice thoroughbred 

 birds; in which case, the best of the cock- 

 erels must be kept to sell in the fall as stock. 



The best place to erect the young pullets' 

 enclosure is in the orchard, for the patches 

 of sun and shade it furnishes seem just what 

 they want. Failing that, or a spot that has 

 some brush on it, you must put up a few shade 

 boards. Cut four thin cedar posts four feet 

 long, point one end, hammer them into the 



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