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insects and do no mischief; but the hen should be kept in the coop. 

 The coop should have no fixed bottom, but a loose one of boards, 

 which can be covered with dry earth and changed twice a week. By 

 running over fresh ground the chicks never have the gapes. When 

 the chicks are two months old the hens may be taken away from 

 them, if the weather is warm, and the chicks will nestle in their 

 coops as usual by themselves, until they are quite large and ready 

 for sale. 



In small flocks there is the most and the surest profit; but where 

 there is a range of grass land, a poor, rough field, or one that has 

 been run down by bad management and needs a rest, a stock of 

 poultry, managed as above described, has often paid more profit than 

 any other investment on the farm. 



LIGHT BKAHMA FOWLS. 



Light Brahmas are the most popular fowl and are even heavier than 

 the Plymouth Bocks. When this variety is kept in the best manner, 

 small flocks of them have been known to pay as much as four or five 

 dollars per hen in the year. But in all poultry keeping, crowding 

 must be avoided or the flock will suffer, and the owner will surely lose 

 by them instead of making a gain. Overcrowding and filth are the 

 bane of poultry, as they are the destruction of sheep or pigs, as they 

 surely produce fatal disorders. 



The Light Brahma is among poultry what the Short Horn is among 

 beef cattle or the Jersey in the dairy. It is handsome, clean and 

 exceedingly productive. When well kept it is not subject to disease; 

 it lays about eighty or ninety eggs on an average in ihe year, and will 

 safely rear eight chicks per hen in a flock. As a fowl may be kept 



