A SUMMER EGG FARM. 



A Poultry Business That Requires No Houses and Rears 



No Chicl<ens, Yet Pays a Generous Profit 



Six Months of Every Year. 



^ , By R. G. Williams. 



A poultry business which is continued year after year 

 and yields a satisfactory profit, yet requires no permanent 

 • houses, yards, or expensive equipment, is a novelty to 

 most poultrymen. Yet such a business is in operation at 

 Amherst, IMassachusetts, and the owner clears as much 

 money on it during warm weather as many poultrymen 

 having more ex!pensive plants make in a full year, and has 

 his winters to devote to other pursuits. 



iThe best of it is that the same scheme can be operarted 

 successfully anywhere in the temperate zone, where any 

 other branch of the poultry business can be carried on suc- 

 cessfully. 



The village poultryman with an acre of ground can, 

 by this method, handle as many fowls during the sum- 

 mer as his co-workers with more land can keep at a profit 

 in the usual manner. 



The Equipment Required. 



There is absolutely nothing in the way of accommo- 

 dations that can be called a poultry house. The fowls are 

 quartered in yards 12 x 6 feet on the ground and two feet 

 high, framed of inch pine lumber, three inches wide, and 

 covered on the sides and half of the top with two inch 

 mesh wire netting. Upon that part of the top not covered 

 by wire, a space 6x6 extending across one end of the 

 yard, is placed a large "A" coop which covers it with the 

 exception of a small space. This space is provided with 

 a lid, through which the attendant can reach into the coop 

 for various purposes. The roost is placed level with the 



