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fifty feet wide, because it canses dampness and frosty walls, 

 from the moisture of their breath and from the manure. 



If a hen is out doors and roosts on trees the year round 

 she is the healthiest hen of the bunch. She does not breathe 

 and re-breath in the same foul air over and over again, and 

 is not crowded on the roosts. It is natural for them to roost 

 on trees. A chicken was originally a wild jungle fowl and 

 wants free range and the sun of the ranch at all times. 



How to Make Them Lay in Winter and Still Have Natural Ways. 



Now to come as near to nature as possible and make 

 them lay in winter, have a shed open to the south for them 

 to scratch in and throw a load of horse manure near the 

 house. You will see how they will scratch and dig for the 

 oats, etc., in the manure. It also keeps their feet warm. 

 One load of manure will heat up and keep warm for weeks. 

 Then give in straw; feed green cabbage and fresh cracked 

 bone cut with a bone cutter. Now in feeding bone, feed 

 only twice a week, say one pound to fifty hens at each feed. 



A dust box must be in the house near the window. Put 

 -coal ashes in the box and you will get eggs in a way that 

 will surprise you, if they are early hatched pullets. Don't 

 fence them in at all. 



Cholera.. ..The Cause. 



This disease is feared among all farmers and poultrymen 

 There is net much cholera in poultry nowadays. But it was 

 ;all the go some years ago. They don't keep the hens fat 

 like they then did, and they don't feed them three times a 

 -day. In summer don't feed hens at all. Corn is very heat- 

 ing and fattening. The two causes for hens getting cholera 

 is that the fat hen cannot stand the heat, and corn burns 

 them up inside, cooks and boils the food in their stomachs, 

 dysentery, yellow, watery droppings, which look as if mixed 

 with sulphur, getting green after the bird has been sick a 



