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number of fowls is kept intensively, the long house 

 may be more economical, but for the farm where a 

 hundred or less are kept, for the fancy breeder who 

 is obliged to keep his hens in small flocks, and for 

 the back lotter who can keep but a few at the best, 

 the colony house is best. Especially is it well adapted 



FIG. 9 FRAMEWORK FOR GOOD PORTABLE COLONY HOUSE 



to our California conditions, where fowls need a 

 maximum of fresh air and a minimum of protec- 

 tion from the weather, and where scarcity of water 

 and high prices of land make it desirable in many 

 localities that both land and water and the fertilizer 

 which is a by-product of poultry raising be used to 

 the utmost. 



On the farm there is nothing better than colony 

 houses holding twenty-five fowls apiece, scattered 

 through field and orchard, so far apart that each 

 flock will have room to forage without eating up the 

 green crops which may be growing. These houses 

 would be about 8 x 10 feet, and being portable, they 



