The Hen's Habitation. 



run is the same width as the coop and 30 or 40 inches long, 

 and is made of fence-lath or similar material. It has a hinged 

 cover, as shown in the sketch. Food and water for the chicks 

 are placed within this run and are out of the reach of other 

 fowls. A coop of the size shown in the sketch is large enough 

 for 25 chicks with a hen, or 50 without, and it can be moved 

 about the garden almost as easily as a wheelbarrow. It keeps 



the chicks dry, comfortable and healthy, and is easily cleaned 

 out. The coop should never be moved far at any one time. 

 Always at night get 25 or 30 chicks in it, with or without a 

 hen, draw it close to your cabbage and radish-beds, and the 

 little fellows will make it very uncomfortable for the pes- 

 tiferous flea that destroys these plants by wholesale. I tried 

 this plan last year for the first time and it worked like a 

 charm. I did not lose over a dozen out of 20,000 cabbage- 

 plants, and for the first time in years had more radishes than 

 we could eat. When the chicks are taken out of my brooder 

 they are put into this coop, the floor bedded an inch deep with 

 short straw or dry leaves, and the front of the run closed so 

 that they can not get out. After four or five days the run is 

 opened and they go where they please, but they are always 

 fed inside the run. When a storm is imminent I take a little 



