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week. The roosts are twelve inclies above this platform, 

 and the roosts, which are made . of two-by-fours, are 

 placed on a level, as the birds will crowd to the highest 

 roosts if there are such. A poultryman in this State has 

 driven large wire nails in the roosts every ten inches. 

 His idea is that it provides an individual space for each 

 bird, and prevents crowding. In a properly constructed 

 house the hens may be confined during bad weather. The 

 grain is fed m the deep litter, and the hens have to 

 scratch and exercise in finding the wheat and creicked 

 com that is fed. During the morning hours they have 

 free access to a finely pulverized mixture containing a.1- 

 falfa meal, com meal, shorts, salt and beef scrap. Water 

 is supplied in clean crocks and fountains. It is a beau- 

 tiful sight to open the door and look in on a house full 

 of hens that are at work scratching for their feed on a 

 cold day in the winter, cackling and cawing as they 

 work, and shelling out eggs at the rate of almost one a 

 day, whUe your neighbors ' hens are standing idly around 

 in the snow, or trying to find something to eat in the 

 manure piles around the bam. The accompanying pho- 

 tographs speak for themselves. 



COTTON PLANTING IN KENTUCKY. 

 S. L. DoDDS, Hickman, Kt. 



Statistics show that Kentucky raises more cotton 

 to the acre than any State in the Union, but unfortu- 

 nately there is but one county withia the boundaries of 

 our broad Commonwealth in which this valuable staple 

 can be produced, viz., Fulton county. This county, in 

 1915, sold between $900,000 and $1,000,00Q worth of 

 cotton and cotton seed, not taking into account the cot- 

 ton seed by-products. 



Prior to twenty-five years ago, cotton could not 

 be successfully grown in Kentucky, notwithstanding cer- 

 tain lands in the lower end of Fulton county appeared 

 particularly adapted to this crop. It remained for four 

 brothers, the Dodds Brothers, of Hickman, Kentucky, 



