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a chicken yard made into a dumping-ground for rubbish 

 and the chickens treated as scavengers is disgusting, and 

 should not be tolerated in any community. 



A nice flock of chickens properly cared for and housed, 



BACKYARD EGG FARMING 



Miss Ruth Hayes, winner of second prize, $50. A poultry yard may be 

 made an attractive feature of the backyard. 



and yarded in becoming style, may become an attractive 

 feature of the vacant lot ; and besides furnishing the daily 

 fresh egg, will afford a mental diversion to some of the 

 older people and a pleasure to the younger members of 

 the family. Young boys and young girls of the town, 

 lacking something to do, will find in a flock of chickens in- 

 terest and instruction. The more ambitious youngster 

 will find opportunity for a study of the problems that are 

 of absorbing interest to all students of plant and animal 

 breeding ; for though the chicken is a chicken, it is subject 

 to the same laws of heredity as are plants and livestock in 

 general. Profit therefore may be realized in different ways 



