140 Farm Poultry 



are much less liable to injury by this insect than 

 those grown under similiar conditions outside of 

 the yards. If several poultry yards are arranged 

 side by side, the owner may provide for a plum 

 orchard by planting a row of plum trees through 

 the middle of each yard. The following varieties 

 of plums have been especially recommended for 

 this purpose: 



Lombard Burbank 



Bradshaw Coe Golden Drop 



Peter Yellow Gage 



There is no reason why an apple orchard may 

 not form a poultry yard to good advantage. Par- 

 ticularly would this be true if the orchard were 

 kept under thorough cultivation, a practice which is 

 now so strongly recommended by the most advanced 

 orchardists. The whole orchard may be inclosed 

 with the poultry fence and the fowls given the 

 run of it. If thought advisable, simple,, temporary 

 yards may be provided for the various flocks during 

 a part of the year, when it is desired to keep them 

 separate. At other times all of the flocks may be 

 given the run of the entire orchard. 



When the fowls have once become accustomed 

 to their house or home, they will give the owner 

 very little trouble by perching elsewhere, even 

 though they be given the opportunity to do so. 

 Whenever small yards are used, it will be found 

 desirable to place the young birds or pullets in 



