IN THE POULTRY YARD. IIl 
Hamburgh and one Brown Leghorn, from my general purchases. 
Then, beginning with the Dominiques, I picked out all the best hens 
that I could find of this breed, and when I got through, I found 
that I had three very respectable breeding pens of this variety. 
Indeed, I confess, I was somewhat surprised to find them so good, 
and as the cocks were all first class, I looked forward to having 
come excellent results. 
I then took the pens containing the Spangled Hamburgh cocks. 
I did not find a single hen to match, so I filled each of them up 
with four of the best Dominiques T had left and two very fair 
Brahma pullets. In this case, too, I had no reason to feel dis- 
satisfied. 
Next came the White Leghorns. There were quite a number 
of very excellent Leghorn hens amongst my purchases, so I filled 
one coop with the best I had. ‘This was a very handsome pen. 
In the other pens I placed Dominiques and Brahma hens. T had 
great faith in this cross and resolved to give it a fair trail. 
With the Brown Leghorns, I did not have such good luck. I had 
no Brown Leghorn hens that could be called pure, and my 
Dominiques were now getting down to culls. However, I made up 
two of the best pens I could, and awaited results. 
The ten pens drafted sixty hens from my flock. With those I 
had at first and what were left of the 537 hens I bought, I had 
just 523 left over. The problem now, was, to dispose of these 
birds. 
My experience has been that to change the roosting place of a 
hen is a difficult matter. A setting hen is a stubborn thing, but she 
is gentleness itself, compared with a hen that is determined to 
roost where she is not wanted. I have never been able to change 
the roosting place of a hen, except by shutting her up in her new 
coop for two or three weeks, and even this plan does not always 
work. Of course, when a hen is removed to such a distance that 
she loses all knowledge of her locality, she may be made to roost any-' 
where. ‘This was the condition in which my hens were at this’ 
time, so that all I had to do was to sort them into lots of about 75 
each, place each lot in its own house and yard, and leave them 
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