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time a small enclosure for poultry may be built on a 

 corner of the lot. 



It will be an advantage, in raising vegetables and 

 poultry on a small piece of ground, to practice migratory 

 yarding. This consists in moving the house and yards 

 from one part of the ground to another each year. In 

 this way the space occupied by the poultry one year 

 will be highly fertilized for the growing of vegetables 

 the next year, and the fowls will be benefited in health 

 and vigor from having new, sweet earth to travel over 

 and scratch in. 



POULTRY HOUSES 



POULTRY-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION 



To maintain the health of fowls, their houses and 

 runways should be free from dampness. Ground having 

 a surface that naturally sheds water away from the 

 buildings and yards is preferable. The best kind of 

 soil on which to build a poultry house is a sandy loam 

 having a sandy or a gravelly subsoil. Both the soil and 

 the subsoil should be deep enough to permit perfect 

 drainage. If the wash of the soil is toward a poultry 

 house, ditches and banks should be built to turn the 

 water away from the buildings and yards. 



Poultry houses should be placed so that they will 

 receive all the sunlight possible. In the northern 

 hemisphere they are preferably placed on hillsides that 

 slope gradually toward the south; in the southern hem- 

 isphere the best exposure is exactly opposite. Poultry 

 yards should preferably extend away from the building 

 in a southerly direction. 



The natural demands of a hen are about the same as 

 those of a dairy cow, except those due to the difference 

 resulting from size. The hen varies, according to the 

 breed, from 9 to 12 in. in height, and a fowl should 

 furnish enough natural, or body, heat on the average 



