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Wood or coal ashes should be thrown around the bushes occa- 

 sionally during the summer, for, besides making an excellent 

 wallowing-place for the fowls, they greatly benefit the plants. 

 When the same ground is to be used for a poultry-yard for 

 a number of years, I think it would pay to inclose the whole 

 with a substantial picket- 

 fence, which should be 

 painted. There should be 

 gates large enough to admit 

 a one - horse wagon. But 

 where the poultry - yard is 

 changed to a new piece of 

 ground every year or so, 



Something in the shape Of a Fio. LV-MOVAHLK roiTi.TnY-r K N. E . 



cheap, movable fence must be used. For this purpose I can 

 recommend the movable fence without posts (Fig. 15), which 

 was invented by Waldo F. Brown. I append Mr. Brown's direc- 

 tions for making this fence : 



" The cut represents a panel eight feet long ; the trusses are 

 three and a half feet high ; the six-inch board at the bottom we 

 put six inches above the ground, and bank up to it with earth ; 

 the strips to which the lath are nailed are three inches wide. 

 We use good plasterers' lath for the paling, and any waste 

 pieces of board for the brace, which is nailed across from one 

 upright to the other. The cut shows this brace to be but three 

 inches wide, but it is better six or eight. The fence must be 

 set up so that the lath all lean in, and this makes it very diffi- 

 cult for fowls to fly over it, as they must start some feet back 

 to do so. The fence, as I make it, is five and a half feet high. 

 I use oak, two inches square, for the uprights. In putting up 

 this fence we set these panels down seven feet eight inches 

 apart, and nail boards from one to the other on which to nail the 

 lath, thus making each pair of trusses, as shown in the cut, make 

 nearly sixteen feet of fence. As a two-inch upright is too nar- 

 row to splice on, we nail the boards on the top of the other 

 boards, using nails long enough to go through both and hold in 

 the uprights. After our fence is built we drive a good oak or 



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