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answer all needful purposes; this is supposing 

 the fowls to have complete liberty; if shut up 

 during any part of the day, they must have a 

 yard such as I have already described. Where 

 many kinds of poultry are desiderated, a much 

 more extended system becomes imperative. 

 Houses to suit their diflferent peculiarities must 

 be erected, in order to do justice to them all, 

 and guarantee success in each. 



Take, for example, the classes of Brahma 

 Pootra and Cochins. These require no perch, 

 preferring the floor of the house to any more 

 elevated position ; but this must be weU littered 

 down with straw, as in a stable, and as regularly 

 removed A broad board covered with straw is 

 sometimes substituted for a perch; this must be 

 a little elevated from the ground. I find, how- 

 ever, that if there are nests, there the Cochins 

 will roost, in spite of all attempts to make them 

 do otherwise. A wire fence three feet high is 

 quite sufficient to restrain these birds within 

 bounds; they never attempt to fly over the divi- 

 sions, or poach on their neighbour's grounds. If 

 a tree can be enclosed in a poultry run, it forma 



