NATURAL LAWS. 



be over one and one-half years old for layers. Pullets are 

 the best layers. If you have a farm, build small houses 

 twelve foot long 1 , twelve foot wide, eight foot high in front 

 and six foot in the rear, with open shed to the south. These 

 are for spring, summer and fall use. Put fifty hens and two 

 cockerels in each house. These houses must be 100 yards 

 apart and on a colony plan. No yards are necessary. Train 

 your hens a few days to let them know where to roost and 

 they all will go to their own house and not all go in one. 

 An open south front house is the purest and healthiest house 

 to keep Peultry in. See Blue Print on how to biiild it. Fresh 

 air every day in the year is the best doctor for all fowls. 



Don't Make a Hot-House Plant of Your Poultry. 



Don't fuss with your fowls. Give them free range. You 

 positively cannot make it pay yarding them. 



Now about cockerels and cocks. If you have Rhode Is- 

 land Reds hens, pure, the first year use Rhode Island Reds 

 cocks and cockerels. Next year use Buff Wyandotte cocks 

 and cockerel. Next year Buff Rock cockerels. All these 

 have a sprinkle of Rhode Island Red blood in them. Then 

 the next year use Buff Leghorn cockerels to twenty-five 

 pullets or hens. Then the next year use Rose Comb Rhode 

 Island Reds. Always buy your new blood cocks from a dif- 

 ferent breeder and you then don't in-breed one chance in a 

 hundred. You will have better and healthier Poultry; 

 all will be of one color and size and they will be the 

 best layers to be had. But for fancy and show you must 

 keep them yarded to keep them pure. But don't in-breed, 

 also give them a very large yard. A dozen in a pen and a 

 yard, 25 by 150 at least. 



Cattle, hogs, horses, poultry and birds in a wild state 

 are not cared for in any way, they help themselves and are 

 hardier than any of the domesticated animals. When I was 

 out in the far west in different states and climates, I saw 

 wild animals, cattle, horses and sheep have their young 

 in the snow, cold and windy, no shelter, etc. I have never 



