POULTRY RAISING 



CHAPTER III. 



Laying out your plant. 



First, to lay out your plant, we will take your 

 stream of water and build houses both sides of it, far 

 enough from the stream to keep on high ground. Put 

 your houses sixty to seventy-five feet apart, accord- 

 ing to your ground, keeping sixty Leghorns to a house 

 and fifty Wyandottes, Rocks or the larger breeds. 

 You must flock your hens, and then you will have 

 no further trouble, as nearly every hen will go in her 

 own house. 



To flock them, put your sixty hens in the house 

 and keep them shut in for three days, letting them out, 

 on the third day, one hour befoi'e dark. Your hens 

 get acquainted in the three days they are shut up to- 

 gether, and will ever after run much together and 

 return to their own house. After trying houses of 

 various kinds and styles, I have never found one that 

 suits me so well as the one I shall describe, and I con- 

 sider it the most perfect house built at the present 

 time — and also the cheapest constructed. 



A model laying house. 



House complete 



