THE POULTRY YARD. 



\ Poultry House for Chickens. — The poultry house wo have iUustrated 

 is designed for young chicks. It can be attached to a coop, and is made of 

 laths. It is the length of a lath and half a lath in height. 



Such an arrangement allows the mother some room to move about, and 

 enables tlie young chicks to reach air and sun. Almost any bright boy can 

 nail the laths together, and it will materially increase the chickens' chances 

 of life, Eemember that the first few days are the most critical and require 

 extra attention. 



More fowls are destroyed in infancy, like humans, by injudicious feeding 

 than at any other time. The first four weeks' management of the young 

 chicks is everything, for no after cares can compensate for neglect during 



the critical period. For 

 the firat twenty-four hours 

 no food should be g^ven 

 the chicks of any kind. At 

 first there may be given 

 hard-boiled egg, chopped 

 fine. This need only be 

 given for two or three days 

 when the food should be 

 changed to one consibting 

 A POULTBT HOUSE FOB CHICKS. of Oatmeal cooked in milk, 



to which an egg bas been 

 added. The second week the milk and oatmeal gruel, stiflfly made, should 

 be continued,' and good wheat screenings allowed also. After the second 

 week the food may be varied so as to consist of anything they_ will eat, but 

 do not confine them to a single article of diet, as disease of the bowels may 

 occur. Green grass, cooked vegetables and milk may be given freely. The 

 chicks should not be allowed to roam outside with the hen, if possible, until 

 the sun is well up, as damimess is more injurious to them than cold. When 

 very young feed every two hours, as feathers, bone and meat are forming 

 fast, requiring plenty of nourishment. "VSlicn cleanliness is observed but 

 few diseases appear. Never let a surplus of food remain after the feeding is 

 over, but see that they are sufSciently supplied before taking the excess 

 away. Young chicks are not troublesome to raise if a little system and care 

 are practiced. 



A Model Hennery — The breeding of new and choice varieties of poultry 

 has grown to be quite an extensive industry in this country during the past 

 few years, and it is not entirely confined to those who make it a business, 

 either, as many of our farmers have learned, at last, that it pays to devote 

 more time and attention to the raising and care of poultry than they formerly 

 were -Nvilling to give to it. The model liennery herewith illu8t«Ated and de- 

 scribed combines all the essential recjuisitoa for convenience, cleanliness, the 



