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top of a hill overlooking much of Little Crompton and be- 

 low him is spread out many little farms, perhaps a score or 

 more, each with its group of poultry cottages, all much the 

 same in a,ppearance. All are wood-colored, that is, none are 

 painted, and so few whitewashed that they are scarcely 

 noticed. We shall see these houses more in detail on closer 

 inspection. 



The Original "Red" Section. 



The largest plants winter about twenty-eight hundred 

 hens. These are all Rhode Island Reds. Both Single 

 and Rose Comb varieties are kept. This breed was originat- 

 ed right here on these very farms and is well adapted to egg 

 farming; though as bred on most farms it is not as large as 

 other standard American breeds it is yet large enough for 

 a good, salable market fowl. This bird is, undoubtedly, 

 a Mediterranean-Asiatic cross with the brown Leghorn rep- 

 resenting the Mediterranean blood and a rather undeter- 

 mined quality representing the Asiatic. The writer has 

 seen females much resembling these from crosses of Brown 

 Leghorns and Light Brahmas. There is no apparent rea- 

 son why a Cochin cross could not be used with Brown 



A Sample of Primitive Brood Coop T'sed on One of the Colony Egg 

 Farms Described by A. C. Smith. 



