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fusion system and the open front and fresh air 

 houses obviate this defect. 



PENALTIES FOR UNCLEANNESS 



At no time of the year are fowls so likely to be 

 neglected as during the hot summer months when 

 the farmer is making least out of them and sees 

 smallest prospect of returns. No matter how well 

 they may have been managed the previous winter 

 and spring, interest in them is likely to lag when 

 they lessen their laying. Neglect is most commonly 

 evidenced in careless feeding and watering and in 

 allowing the poultry houses and yards to become 



COMBINED SCRATCHING SHED AND HOUSE 



Fre.'5h-air house. Fov/ls have all floor space (16x12' feet), 

 except 4-foot alley behind roosts. Curtain at peak for use 

 when desired. About 600 feet lumber, four rolls paper, and 

 half roll netting, four hinges, needed for 50 or 60 fowls. 

 Cost of material about ?25. 



unclean. If the birds have free range the care- 

 less feeding may produce no apparent serious ef- 

 fects; but this kind of luck seldom follows neglect 

 of sanitary conditions. 



