KIND OF HOUSE TO BUILD 



201 



No. 210 bright ; two pieces of iron rod 3-16 x 12 inches, and 

 two pieces belt lacing 9x^/2 inches. 



Yards. If the poultry houses are located near a neigh- 

 bor's fields or yards, it will be necessary to yard the fowls. 

 For other reasons, such, as the keeping of more than one 

 variety or strain of fowls, separate fenced enclosures must 

 be maintained. "Where these reasons do not exist, it is bet- 

 ter to give the fowls 

 free range, either in 

 large or small flocks 

 or in large or small 

 houses. They will 

 do better running 

 together, as many as 

 500 in a flock, on 

 free range than if 

 separated into yards 

 with fifty or 100 in 

 each. The house 

 may be divided into 

 pens with partitions 

 between each, and 50 

 or 100 fowls in each 

 pen. When once ac- 

 customed to their 

 pen they will usual- 

 ly go back to their 

 own roosting places. 



Importance of Keeping the Yards Clean. When chick- 

 ens are confined throughout the year in yards, care must 

 be taken to keep the yards clean, otherwise there will in 

 time be serious losses from diseases and general loss in 

 vitality. "When they are kept year after year on the same 

 ground the yards sooner or later become contaminated with 



LADY MACDUFF 



Being taken from the trapnest when she laid 

 her 303d egg. 



