CHAPTER IV 



Laying Out Your Plant 



First, to lay out your plant, we will take your strean:i 

 of water and build houses both sides of it far enough 

 from the stream to keep on high ■ ground. Put your 

 houses sixty to seventy-five feet apart, according to your 

 ground, keeping sixty Leghorns to a house and fifty 

 Wyandottes, Rocks or the larger breeds. You must flock 

 your hens, then you will have no further trouble, as 

 nearly every hen will go in her own house. 



To flock them, put your sixty hens in the house and 

 keep them shut up for three days, letting them out cm 

 the third day one hour before dark Your hens get ac- 

 quainted in the three ■days they are shut up together, and 

 will ever after run much together and return to their 

 own house. After trying houses of various kinds and 

 styles I have never found one that suits me so well as 

 the one I shall describe, and I consider it the most 

 perfect house built at the present time — and also the 

 cheapest constructed. 



A MODEL LAYING HOUSE 



