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shows a Southern California house where over 400 

 Leghorns are kept with but scant yards. 



The Two-yard System 



Many poultrymen strike an average between the 

 intensive and extensive systems by keeping their 

 hens in houses holding from fifty to one hundred 

 each, and having two runs for each house. The 

 fowls are kept in one yard while a green crop is 

 grown in the other. Some such system is absolutely 



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FIG. 5 TRIPLE YARD SYSTEM 



necessary if fowls are to be kept for a series of 

 years on the same ground, and it has the additional 

 advantage of providing a good deal of green feed. 



These double runs may both be in front of the 

 house, as in Figure 3, or one may be at the rear, 

 the south yard being used in winter and the north 

 in summer. (Figure 4.) Where a house has sev- 

 eral sections the plan shown in Figure 5 may be 

 used, the fowls being confined to the small yards 



