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placed when hatched until thej"^ are removed to winter 

 quarters. Crowding into these coops at night, they be- 

 come overheated and lose more strength during the hours 

 when they are supposed to rest than they gain- in the day- 

 time. Food furnished a flock so housed produces but 



A Slat Front Roosting Coop with a Door in the Middle of the Front, 

 Recommended as Summer Quarters for Growing Pullets. 



indifferelit results and the birds would be far healthier 

 were they allowed to roost in trees. 



We not infrequently find a large flock crowded into a 

 roosting coop which is tightly built and of which the doors 

 and windows, either from a mistaken idea of the protec- 

 tion required against the elements or in order to make 

 them safe against intrusions of animals, are tightly shut 

 every night. Before the youngsters have been confined 

 in such a place half an hour, the air within is wholly unfit 



