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still be grass to cut, but not so much, and after some time 

 for purification and growth, the grass or hay on the fallow 

 runs will be of real value. But such a fallowing system 

 requires obviously a system of movable fences on one side 

 of a range of houses, or row of detached ones. The most 

 economical plan would be to arrange dividing fences in 

 50-yard lengths, then each will . take a roll of netting with 

 no cutting or waste, easily fixed on small pins driven sloping 

 into stakes, and easily removed to the other set of runs 

 when the shifting took place. 



Fruit trees are desirable, as much for shade and insects, 

 as for their produce. Filberts would often be more valuable, 

 and not tempt appetite ; but it is a mistake to state, as 

 some do, that bush-fruit is altogether unsuitable. On the 

 contrary, gooseberry and currant trees are about the best 

 shelter of all for young chickens ; and runs devoted to these 

 will not be injured, as they can only at most reach a few of 

 the lowest berries. 



In regard to (b) it is not only indispensable to get the 

 personal experience, and to get it gradually, if ruinous loss 

 is to be avoided, but it is always to be remembered that the 

 would-be poultry farmer has to make his market, just as 

 every other business has to gradually build up its connection. 

 Some seem to think that a demand is always waiting, at 

 tip-top prices. It is no such thing. Every large dealer of 

 any kind has his clients already ; and private customers have 

 to be sought and secured ; and any special product especially, 

 such as newly-hatched chickens, or fowls bred for laying, or 

 eggs from them, at better than market prices, has to be 

 bred up, and a "character" for it earned, and to become 

 known. People often write asking "where" produce of one 

 kind or other can be sold at good prices ; and the answer 

 is, nowhere, in the sense they mean. Such a selling con- 

 nection has to be built up and got together. A large 

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