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MY OWN EXPERIENCE. 



moved to the sitting-houses, chickens take pos- 

 session, and remain till the sale in the early year, 

 which makes room for their successors. " Wel- 

 come the coming, speed the parting guest." 



The parent cocks, meanwhile, are shut up in 

 the yard-houses with a few hens of any variety, 

 in order to keep up a succession of cross-bred 

 chickens for the table. 



I have found the advantage of a number of 

 small houses with covered-in wire runs, (move- 

 able at pleasure to fresh ground), a drawing of 

 which I give (fig. 10.) 



I'ig 10. 



Some of these yards are of glass, laced over 

 with wire, the houses in both cases being alike 

 detached, but fitting closely to the runs (fig. 11.) 



