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and ventilation is provided by the openings over each win- 

 dow. Roosts are placed at the extreme back. Xo drop- 

 ping broads are used as I consider them an inducement for 

 laziness on the part of whoever takes care of the birds. 

 Partitions are of wire, except two feet at the bottom, which 

 is of boards, to keep males and obstreperous hens from 

 fighting. 



Along the entire length of the building, at the top of 

 the back wall, are single coops for training quartere for 

 show birds and surplus males. Underneath these coops 

 are the roosts, made of two four by fours, with the edges 

 rounded. Nest boxes are arranged along the sides of the 

 pens, as are also water cans and feed, oyster shell, char- 

 coal and grit boxes. Dust boxes, good and deep, are 

 also provided. Absolute cleanliness is the rule. All 

 scratching material, which is deep in the pens, is removed 

 once a week and the floors, roosts, coops and sides of pens 

 are sprinkled or sprayed with a good lice killing and dis- 

 infecting liquid. New litter consisting of oat-straw, tim- 

 othy hay siftings, and a bushel basketful of tobacco stems 

 is placed in each pen. Whitewash is used as needed. The 

 same treatment is given the two other houses, one with 

 a dirt floor, the other with board floor. It is needless 

 to say that there are no lice or mites about the premises. 



In feeding, dry bran is before the birds in self feeders 

 at all times, so they can help themselves. Bran I con- 

 sider one of the very best of foods and one would be sur- 

 prised at the large quantity consumed. The morning feed 

 consists of oats and millet scattered in the litter the night 

 before and buried deep. This keeps them busy until I 

 return from the office at noon, when table scraps, fresh 

 cut beef scraps and a little wheat and cracked com is fed. 

 At night whole corn is the meal and the birds go to bed 

 with full crops. A mash consisting of bran, commeal 

 and a little linseed oil is fed occasionally, but not often 

 as I much prefer the dry feed. Cabbage is the prin- 

 cipal green food and a head is almost always in each pen, 

 stuck on a spike just high enough to make the fowls jump 

 for it. Fresh cut bone is also fed three times a week. I have 

 no certain amount of grain to feed, but if the birds seem 



