THE POULTRY YARD 



SYSTEMATIC FOWL FARMING has not as yet received much 

 attention in New Zealand. Attempts, it is true, have been 

 made with varying success. To succeed with a fowl farm 

 every detail must be attended to with persevering industry and 

 attention. The leading parts to be attended to are regularity 

 in feeding, scrupulous cleanliness, and pure water. If these 

 conditions be neglected, disease is sure to attack the flock. 

 Fowl cholera is occasionally prevalent in this country ; we 

 have known it to sweep away 90% of the whole stock of 

 fowls on a farm in the course of eight or ten days. There 

 is little doubt but that neglect in some of the above par- 

 ticulars is the main cause of such mortality. 



Soil for a Fowl Farm. In selecting a site for a 

 fowl farm choose a dry warm soil, not too poor or too 

 gravelly, as a portion of the land will have to be cropped to 

 produce green and corn food. In America, where fowl 



