118 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
drawi. within reach. Ido not think theabove invention 
has ever been patented, and it istoo good to keep. By 
its use one person may handle a coop of fowls, which 
without it would require at least two or three persons to 
accomplish. 
PASTURING POULTRY. 
The farmer whose acres are broad can enclose his gar- 
den with a fence, and let the poultry run at will, but 
villagers and suburban residents, living on small lots, 
must enclose their chickens if they desire to cultivate 
either a garden or the good will of their neighbors. 
During the spring and summer months it is necessary 
that chickens have a supply of fresh, tender, green food, 
if kept in a healthy, growing condition. They cannot 
eat grass when it is tall enough to mow, and the refuse 
of the garden is little better than husks. A good plan 
is to pasture the chickens. Make a wire cage, put iton 
wheels having flanges, lay a track for the wheels to run 
on, and sow oatsbetween. The frame is three feet high, 
six feet wide, and eight long. The upper part is 2 
by 2-inch pine; the sills 2 by 4 inches. The wheels 
are sawed from 2-inch oak plank, and turn on 1-inch 
bolts. The flanges are 1-inch stuff, nailed to the 
wheels. The track is 2 by 2-inch stuff laid on the 
ground, the strips being thrown on top as the cage passes 
along. Wire half the thickness of fence wire is strong 
enough. The soil between the rails should be worked 
over, and sown with oats early in the spring and in suc- 
cessive sowings. When an inch high it will do to pas- 
ture. Havea small door in the poultry yard to match 
the one in the cage. Half an hour’s pasturing each day 
will do the chickens more good than any amount of 
green stuff thrown to them. When the crop seems ex- 
hausted, let the fowls scratch it over ; then sow again. 
