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From the new stock the best samples of pullets are selected 

 again, to add to the next year's breeding stock, as before ; the 

 old fowls (two years of age) are kiUed, the young cocks are 

 all put in separate houses, to be used for the earliest maturing 

 and largest chickens, and affairs go on during the fall as during 

 the season previous. 



By adopting the plans thus laid down, with the buildings 

 and appointments herein suggested, a thousand chickens can 

 be readily and profitably raised for the summer market annu- 

 ally, while ample conveniences are thus afforded, also, for at 

 least one hundred laying hens during the winter months in the 

 glazed house, (Figs. 7 and 8.) If the desire be to raise more, 

 increased space must be accorded to your fowls, and more 

 buildings should be erected. 



It will not answer to increase the huddling of the birds 

 under one roof. If the buildings are smaller even than those 

 described, and more numerous, being scattered over acres, 

 instead of confining the stock mentioned to half an acre, and 

 to a building of the size given, it will be all the better for the 

 general health of the birds, undoubtedly. Crowding fo-wls 

 into too narrow a space, is one great cause of the fatalities 

 attending the attempt to breed them. 



Fresh air, light, cleanliness, varied fare, pure water, range, 

 grass or occasional green and animal food, shelter from wet 

 and raw winds, with plenty of gravel and ashes to roll them- 

 selves in,, are all requisites to success. 



With these advantages and fair attention, provision being 

 made for the warmth and comfort of the laying hens in winter, 

 chickens can be raised for the table and for market in any 

 quantities, and to highly satisfactory profit; and eggs in abund- 

 ance may also be had in any dry location within reasonable 

 distance of the larger cities and towns of America, as has 

 been proved through years of experience and of successful 

 experiments. * 



