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shines in every window. The attention necessary to properly 

 \entilate a honse with windows on every side, so that the 

 hirds will not he the victims of drafts, is more tlian can be 

 i;,iven on the farm where poultry is a side line. In this house 

 tlie birds are fed and have their scratching cjuarters on the 

 lower floor and the roosting c[uarters are al.io\'e. 



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Yards and Fences. — For profitable farm poultry production 

 there should be a minimum of yards. Insofar as is prac- 

 ticalile, poultry slrould be fenced out rather than in. There 

 will be far better thrift if the hens are fenced out of the 

 garden and the door yard and allowed the range of the farm. 



Stewart and Atwood' found that when all other conditions 

 were as erjual as it was possible to make them, eggs from 

 Leghorn hens on free range gave a fertility of 91.5 per cent, 

 wdiile eggs from those confined in yards 15 by 100 feet gave 

 a fertility of 75.6 per cent. At the same time, 83 per cent 

 of the fertile eggs from hens on free range hatched, while 

 but 07.5 per cent of the fertile eggs from the jarded hens 

 hatched. Bushnell and jMaurer- found that range, as com- 



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" Uiipiiblislieil data, Kansas E.xperinient Station. 



