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to breathe and its condition in the morning is best de- 

 scribed as filthy. On opening such a coop to liberate the 

 chicks in the morning, it will be noticed that the confined 

 air is heated almost to the suffocating point and laden 

 with impurities. The result of such housing is lowered 

 vitality, accompanied by colds and a strong tendency to- 

 ward roup. To expect paying results from such flocks is 

 scarcely reasonable. It pays to furnish healthful condi- 

 tions. 



We believe it is the opinion of most poultrymen who de- 

 pend upon the production of market eggs for all, or a sub- 

 stantial part, of their income that the sooner after Novem- 

 ber first the developed and nearly developed pullets are 

 placed in the quarters that they will occupy during the win- 

 ter, the better will be the results obtained. The writer's 

 experience is closely in line with the above, except with re- 

 spect to localities where the weather continues warm and 

 t'he pullets have to be confined to the houses, or houses and 

 small yards, if placed in winter quarters. In latitudes 

 where the ground freezes, cold winds blow, hard rains are 

 probable and snow possible, November first is not too early 

 to move the profit makers from the coops to permanent 

 houses. 



Housing the Egg Producers. 



The main reasons for putting the pullets in their winter 

 quarters are: to accustom them to the new environment 

 before the majority of them begin laying in order that egg 

 production need not be interrupted by the excitement inci- 

 dent to a change later; to better provide shelter from se- 

 vere weather; and to furnish more room per bird, under 

 cover, where each can obtain more exercise and have a 

 better chance to receive food and water, during stormy 

 days when they must be confined to the buildings. 



To take pullets from free range and place them in quar- 

 ters where they must limit their wanderings to small yards 

 is too great a change, a fact that will be apparent to any 

 poultryman who will observe a flock carefully when such a 

 change is made. The change of ration from that contain- 

 ing much of nature's food, found in the fields, to one whol- 

 ly prepared by the most careful and intelligent feeder, af- 

 fects the digestion more or less. 



