42 POULTRY-YARD. 



to incur this expense, and we have fortu- 

 nately at hand the means of obtaining an 

 equal degree of comfort and security for our 

 fowls without any very considerable outlay 

 of money. 



Every barnyard, if properly situated, is 

 placed facing the south, and is, or should 

 be, enclosed within high stone walls, or a 

 close board fence. It is warm, sufficiently 

 large for a flock of a hundred or more hens, 

 and, by elevating the fence a few feet higher 

 by means of laths or pickets, you have a 

 convenient and suitable poultry-yard almost 

 ready made to your hands. The dunghill 

 we also know to be their favourite resort. 

 It affords them a grateful warmth in winter, 

 and the foul seeds thrown out in threshing, 

 the undigested grains, and the larvae and eggs 

 of insects, furnish them with a grateful re- 

 past. Many articles, likewise, are usually 

 thrown into a barnyard, such as ashes, re- 

 fuse vegetables, pounded oyster and clam- 

 shells, refuse mortar, &c., which are greedily 

 sought after by fowls ; and as every well- 

 managed barnyard contains a well or cis- 



