POULTRY YARDING AND FENCING 
on the part of the attendant to provide plenty of 
good clean litter for the birds to scratch in, green 
food from the garden, scraps from the table and 
kitchen, etc., often atone for a lack of yard room 
for the fowls and make possible a success not 
dreamed of by the careless attendant. 
Larger yard space per head is necessary in the 
case of pens of four to ten birds than where fifty 
or more birds are kept together. For flocks of 
fifty fowls, fifty to seventy-five square feet of 
yard room per fowl might well be placed as the 
minimum space for maximum results; in perma- 
nent yards, especially if uncultivated, at least one 
hundred square feet per fowl should be allowed. 
This would mean about three acres of land for one 
thousand adult fowls, and that is about as “‘ inten- 
sive”’ as practicable; five acres would be much 
safer, especially for breeding stock. A flock of a 
dozen fowls, more or less, should have at least 
three hundred square feet, if they belong to the 
American or English class. The Asiatic breeds, 
with good care, will often do well on little or no 
range; Leghorns and other nervous breeds should 
not be attempted on a small plot. All figures given 
are strictly minimum; the more space allowed the 
better. 
The poultry keeper must remember in all these 
cases that the less the yard room for his flock of 
poultry the more constant his care in management 
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