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on nests of straw at the back of the house. There should be 

 a large sized window in each house. 



(6) The yard in front of the fowl house should be covered 

 in the rainy season, as wet is must injurious to fowls. At 

 other seasons a covered run is not needed, and it is good to 

 let the fowls go about in the open as much as possible, and 

 scratch the loose earth of the yard and pick up and swallow 

 bits of grit or bones, which is their natural habit. As the 

 yard gets polluted in time with the dung of the fowl, it is 

 necessary to clean it from time to time, say once a week, and 

 sprinkle ashes over.it, and a layer of dry earth 2 inches deep 

 twice a yean 



(7) A shed open in front should be provided for the 

 sitting hens* 



(8) The whole i. <?., the roosting and laying houses, the 

 covered and open runs and the shed for sitting hens should 

 be fenced in to a height of 6 ft. with wire netting of 2-inch 

 mesh* 



(9) The points of a good bird are : (i) it should be young 

 i.e., it should show smooth and not rough and horny shanks ; 

 (2) it should be of a good size; (3) it should be plump and 

 sprightly looking; (4) the legs should be short; (5) the breasts 

 should be full. Village stock prove healthier than town-stock 

 and on no account should Calcutta Municipal Market birds be 

 chosen as the basis of a breeding stock. 



(10) The stock should be always kept young, and all 

 birds more than 2 years old should be used up or sold. 



(n) No fixed scale of feeding can be recommended. If 

 hurdling in of poultry by rotation in fallow land and ploughed 

 up land, be systematically practised, very little feeding will 

 be needed. But the rule to be observed in feeding fowls 

 is to give them as much paddy, buck*wheat, oats, or barley, as 

 they will eagerly eat. but no more, so that very soon after 

 the feeding is over, no grains should be seen on the ground, 

 and yet there should be no eagerness noticeable on the part 



