60 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
in and out. On one side the laths are cut off six inches 
from the ground, and a strip, A, three inches wide, is 
secured so as to be raised as the chicks grow larger, to 
permit them to pass under it. If made ten feet long 
and five feet wide, it will be large enough to feed 200 
chicks. The frames for the sides and ends may be at- 
tached to each other by pins, or hooks and staples, and 
when not in use they may be taken apart and packed 
away until again required. 
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REARING EARLY CHICKENS. 
Warmth is the only requisite for rearing early 
chickens, which one finds it difficult to provide early iv 
the season. But there is an easy way to furnish this fof 
the early broods, where the other conveniences are con 
sistent with it; that is, where the poultry-house is tight 
and warm, and is kept clean and free from vermin, and 
where the fowls are fed judiciously. The illustration 
(Fig. 42) represents an annex to a poultry-house, made 
at very little cost. It was built at the end of the poul- 
