JULY 15. 1916 



Fig. 3. — The poultry-yard and the Philo lOop under the evergreens. 



up some netting- and made a yard for tbem 

 about 20 feet wide and towai'd 100 feet 

 long. 



The poultry-house you will see in Nos. 3 

 and 4, which is one that Huber bought of 

 Philo. It was made particularly to keep a 

 dozen hens and never let them out at all. 

 It is very ingenious and pi-etty ; but as I 

 want my chickens to get out and in the 

 yard whenever it is daylight, I pulled out 



a pane of glass to give 

 them a doorway. But 

 a great lot of sparrows 

 soon found this open- 

 ing and learned to go 

 in and out. I suppose 

 you know my way of 

 feeding chickens is to 

 leave the feed plainly 

 before them all the 

 time. Well, the spar- 

 I'ows were getting to 

 be too much of an ex- 

 pense, and therefore I 

 put the pane of glass 

 back again and taught 

 the chicks to go out 

 and in thru a tunnel 

 under the sill of the 

 house. It stands on a 

 little bank so that this 

 tunnel will not catch 

 or hold water when it 

 rains. Well, the thing worked comiDletely 

 so far. If the sparrows should learn to get 

 into the tunnel, when they wanted to get 

 out thej' would fly up against the poultry- 

 netting, for there is poultiy-netting on the 

 roof as well as on the sides; and when it 

 does not rain a part of the roof is raised 

 up. 



Now. there is another thing that pleases 

 me very much about my poultry-yard. Mrs. 





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Fig. 4. — Tlie lioultry-yard with a glimpse of Mrs. Root's back-yard lawai. 



