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we should use, after they are a week old, except very early in 

 the season, are the covers sold with most machines, which 

 protect the mothers from wet, and give the hirds a dry run. 

 This is shown in the Christy out-door rearers (fig. 12). 

 These, as will be seen, have wooden sides and glass tops, and 



Kg. 12. — Christy's Out-door Rearer. 



can have wooden floors, or not, as may he desired. They 

 have doors, so that the chickens can be allowed out or kept 

 in, as the attendant may think best, and generally are easily 

 moved about, so that the birds may have fresh ground every 

 day. During the first week the chicks should be kept in the 

 chicken house, but after that, unless the weather be excep- 

 tionally severe, they are much better outside. The run 

 should always be dry below and changed every day, with 

 fresh sand or dry earth thickly covering the floor, if it be a 

 wooden one. Pure air and cleanliness are essential to success, 

 and, for this reason, the mother should every day be lifted out 

 Of its place, so that all vapours and foul air can get away, and, 



