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to feed and care for the stock. All the houses should be so 

 built that they can be moved out in the field in early spring 

 and back to the house in early winter. This is the cheapest 

 way to make the Poultry business pay. If you build long 

 houses, say one hundred to three hundred feet long, all in 

 one, it costs a lot of money to build it, and the fences are 

 another high cost, and it will never pay. When I see a plant 

 going up with a long house for market purposes, and a lot of 

 money put in fences, I know it will not pay, and ninety-nine 

 out of every one hundred fail. Just as soon as you imprison 

 your fowls you will never make pay. Now, why the long 

 houses and fencing don't pay is a matter of many years 

 experimenting with me at a very high cost. 



Why Long Houses Don't Pay. 



1. A long laying and brooder house is too costly, and 

 if yarded only twelve to fifteen hens can be kept in one pen. 

 2. The fencing costs as much as the lumber for the house 

 for one pen. 3. The fowls will not lay as many eggs as if 

 they were on free range. 4. The poultry are not as healthy 

 when yarded. 5. It is not nature for poultry to be yarded. 

 Poultry want free range, the same as the birds of the air. 

 All around, it never pays to yard them. 



How to Make It Pay.. ..Free Range and Liberty.. ..Colony House 

 Plan.... For Market and Fancy. 



A colony house costs only half as much as a pen house 

 will, and a house 12x12 with a shed attached, will house 

 fifty hens easily and not be crowded. Why? Because they 

 are on free range all the time and you can put four times as 

 many in this style of house. They lay better and do better 

 all around. No fencing is necessary, and you can move the 

 houses when and where you like with little cost, where a 

 long house never can be moved. A long house is very 



