CHAPTER XIX 



OUTBUILDINGS AND ACCESSORIES 



There are various farm buildings which are 



better when more or less detached from the 



main barn ; and some of these may now be 

 mentioned. 



POULTRY HOUSES 



Until recently comparatively few persons 

 have been financially successful in the poultry 

 business when large numbers of fowls were kept 

 in close quarters, as the many abandoned dilapi- 

 dated yard fences and buildings testify. The 

 reason for such failures was due, usually, to 

 allowing too many fowls to run in one flock. 

 It takes a genius to see and note the conditions 

 of each individual animal once daily in a flock 

 of several hundred birds. Break the flock up 

 into several small ones, each of uniform size 

 and character, and the individual fowl may 

 then be more easily noted. A single diseased 

 bird, if not removed, may serve to inoculate a 

 whole flock with some contagious disease. If 

 the flock contains but twenty to thirty indi- 



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