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tary home for the occupants. Poultrymen use 

 various disinfectants and absorbents in the yards 

 in order to keep them as clean as possible. Yards 

 that are not in use all the year should be planted 

 to some crop if an opportunity is afforded. Those 



FIG. 89. Another view on Mr. Truslow's duck farm, showing the track 

 on which a car of feed is pushed from pen to pen at feeding time. 



poultrymen who make a specialty of producing 

 young ducks for the market make a practice of 

 sowing the yards and runs to some quick-growing 

 crop as soon as the yards are vacant. Rye is 

 often used for this purpose. During the rearing 

 season, gypsum, sawdust, sifted coal ashes, and 

 other absorbents are freely used in those parts 



