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THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



in our pages, together with the remarks accompanying the engraving : 

 " Cats sometimes make sad inroads on the broods. If this nuisance be great 

 it is well to confine the coveted prey while young within a wire-covered run. 

 And the best way of forming such a run is to stretch some inch-mesh wire- 

 netting, two feet wide, upon a light wooden frame, so as to form two wire 

 hurdles, two feet wide and about six feet long, with one three feet long. 

 These are easily lashed together with string to form a run six feet by 

 three, and may be covered by a similar hurdle of two-inch mesh three 



CHICKEN COOP AND WIT.K KUN, 



feet wide. In such a run all animal depredations may be defied ; and in any 

 case we should recommend its nse until the chicks are a fortnight old ; it. 

 saves a world of trouble and anxiety, and prevents the brood wandering and 

 getting over- tired. By having an assortment of such hurdles, portable runs 

 can be constructed in a few minutes of any extent required, and will be 

 found of great advantage until the broods are strong. The hen may also be 

 given her liberty within the prescribed bounds." 



DUCK HOUSE. 



A plan of a very cheap and pretty duck house is given in the American 

 Poulterers Companion, to be constructed after the style of the engraving 

 herewith given. It should be placed on the bank of a pond or small island 



A D0CK TENT HOUSE. 



of an ornamental sheet of water. It may be constructed of rough boards 

 thatched with straw, and partly covered with running vines and shrubbery, 



