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of chickens falling from those which are placed 

 above. In this respect, persons will be best guided 

 by their own experience. 



Turkeys, being roosting fowls, may be kept in the 

 yard of which we speak, either in a separate house, 

 or their boxes, for laying or sitting, may be placed 

 on the ground of the common houses ; which last 

 method, perhaps, is objectionable, since turkeys 

 and common fowls might not roost quietly together. 

 In the common way, indeed, poultry of all kinds are 

 associated in a common house, the cocks and hens 

 aloft, and the ducks, geese, and turkeys upon the 

 ground-floor. Or, upon an extensive scale, all the 

 domestic poultry may be contained within the inclo- 

 sure, the circular form for which would be most 

 comprehensive and advantageous, including a piece 

 of water, with laying-houses upon its banks, for the 

 aquatic fowls, and dove-cotes for breeding pigeons. 

 Some shutters may open to the morning sun, for 

 air, and particularly for the benefit of the sitting 

 hens. 



Precautions. 



ALL the above arrangements, the best concerted 

 plan, and the most valuable stock, will little avail 

 the proprietor, or rather turn to his great mortifi- 

 cation and disappointment, without a certain precau- 

 tion, of more consequence than all others a de- 

 fence against MIDNIGHT THIEVES. Not merely a 

 lock, or a bar, or a mere trifling apology for security, 

 but such an ample safeguard, that a man who values 

 his property may lay his head upon his pillow with 



