One Shipment, 5,000 Fowls, Petaluma, Cal. 



when the direct rays may be transmitted or absorbed by windows and roof, 

 especially during the dark, cold or damp months of the year. The practical, 

 twentieth-century house has its roof and windows set to catch the direct light and 

 heat rays of the sun. Heat comes when heat is needed. Light is had when the 

 days are all too short for the full capacity of the great egg-producing machines. 

 Sunshine is the universal antiseptic: give it to the hens. 



The Dust Bath 



No watchfulness can wholly keep a flock free from vermin. Given access 

 to a dust box, the hen will use it to free herself from devitalizing and annoying 

 parasites which come unseen. In her free state she finds a dust hole in the road 

 and uses it as if she enjoyed it. Provide it for her in confinement. But observe 

 the entire flock cannot take a dust bath in one small box and they are usually 

 ready for this natural and instinctive function at the same hours of the day. 

 Give them part of the scratching shed for a dust room or make provision for 

 this exercise in a sunny part of the yard. It is essential to the well-being of 

 the flock. 



Space Per Fowl 



There is a tendency to restrict floor space and this goes with a disposition 

 to keep larger flocks. This in turn means better management. A generation ago 

 we did not know enough about the hen to manage her in large flocks. It is still 

 true that the smaller the flock the greater the production of eggs per fowl, while 

 danger of disease is less. How to determine the size of the flock that will give us 

 the most eggs with the least labor and risk, no one has yet found out. We know, 

 however, that it is wise not to crowd the flock at night in the pens, in the scratch- 

 ing shed or in the brooders. 



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