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COLONY HOUSES IN A CORNFIELD. 



There is no better place to keep your growing chicks than in a 

 cornfield or in a patch of sweet corn near the garden. The corn 

 furnishes plenty of shade and the poultry find lots of bugs and worms, 

 and they have pure, fresh ground over which to run. The young 

 stock in a cornfield grows strong, husky and vigorous, and you can 

 put a luster on tin-in here that you can get in no other way. Place 

 your coops and colony houses along the edge of your cornfield. Thes ; 

 small colony houses can be moved to any place about the farm. They 

 afford comfortable quarters for the growing stock, and can be used 

 during the winter and breeding season to house the other birds. Any 

 farmer or farm hand, who can use a hammer and saw, can build one of 

 these simple houses in a short while. 



Colony houses along the edge of a corn field. 



(Jet the young chicks or the growing chicks in the colony houses 

 just as soon as they are old enough. Cull them closely and throw 

 out all dead weight, drones, surplus and inferior cockerels. 



A COLONY BROODER HOUSE FITTED WITH ADJUSTABLE 



HOVERS. 



This house is six feet deep by eight feet long. It makes a very 

 convenient si/ed house to pull out into the orchard or into the corn- 

 field. A team can easily pull it anywhere about the farm. Build it 

 on oak runners. L'xS inches or 4x4 inches. Tin- house is seven feet 

 high in front and five feet in the rear. Build the walls of matched 

 lumber and cover this with roofing material, it' you wish to make it 

 very warm for use in cold weather, or make the walls double, as shown 

 in the illustration. For winter use, you should have a double floor. 

 Xail three windows together, as shown in the illustration, and hinge 

 them so they swing outward, and arrange them so they can be securely 

 fastened at any height you wish them. Also put the ventilator above 



