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they could be removed at any time and painted with crude carbolic 

 acid and kerosene, and the house whitewashed. 



The yard should have some grass or green food growing in it or 

 else spaded up occasionally, and fruit trees planted for shade. Any 

 kind of fruit trees furnish shade, and the fowls are a benefit to the 

 trees. 



If you keep one yard and one variety, it is best to let the birds 

 have free range, when you are not raising any young chicks on the 

 range. 



We think it advisable to make a sort of hopper or small bin in 

 each poultry house to contain the grain. This can be arranged and 

 built on the inside of the house near the roof, where it will be out of 

 the way, and build it large enough to hold sufficient grain to feed the 

 fowls two weeks or a month. Your grain can be mixed and these 

 hoppers can be filled once a month, or when the supply is exhausted, 

 and thus save the trouble of carrying around a pail of grain from pen 

 to pen. Simply build a square chute on the underneath side of the 

 hopper and arrange a cut-off in the chute. You can carry a quart cup 

 along with you or have one in each house, and then pull out the cut- 

 off and let down as much grain as you need for that feed and throw 

 this grain into the straw litter so the fowls may work for it. A small 

 door can be cut in the outside wall of the house to open into the 

 hopper so it may be filled from the outside, or perhaps you can so 

 arrange the hopper that it may be filled from the inside of the house. 

 Use a box with a hinged lid over it. This plan is a great saving of 

 labor, and that is where much money is lost on a poultry farm. 



Make the roof, the north, the east and west sides of your poultry 

 houses absolutely tight. Your hens had better roost in the trees than 

 to roost in a house with a draft on them. 



ARRANGEMENTS FOR ROOSTS AND NESTS. 



In the accompanying illustration figures A and B are considered 

 the best. Figure C is too complicated and expensive. Figure D the 

 nests occupy valuable floor space. Figure E does not provide for 

 nests. Figure F is the most undesirable of all, because one roost is 



FIG. 48. Types of roosting and nesting arrangements 

 From Cornell Bulletin No. 274. 



