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from this board up you can use wire netting a foot of 

 one-inch mesh netting first, and from this to roof you 

 can use two-inch mesh. If you breed Leghorns you 

 will want this house wired to the roof. Of course you 

 must have a gate from alleyway in every pen. A 

 brooder-house like this comes in very handy on a free- 

 range plant for raising chicks during February and 

 March, for you can never get out too many early chicks. 

 You will also want several colony houses in yards to 

 grow up your young stock in. A little house, 3 by 5, 

 will accommodate sixty to seventy-five nicely until they 

 are large enough to roost in trees, if you are fortunate 

 enough to have trees in your yards. If you have not, 

 by all means set out peach trees in them at once for 

 your chicks are never as healthy as when roosting in 

 trees during the hot summer months, and the oftener 

 you can plow your yards and sow with oats the faster 

 your chicks will grow, and if you have kept them grow- 

 ing without a setback your most forward pullets should 

 be laying at four months of age. 





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