58 Hubbard's poultry secrets. 



tons that any breeder will be proud to own. You will find 

 that the little dash of Black blood will help out on improving 

 type as well as color. 



I have experimented on the crossing of Black cocks on 

 White hens, then breeding from brother and sister, and from 

 this mating I have produced white males that never have 

 shown brass in their plumage and I kept one until he was three 

 years old. 



BREEDING HOUSES AND YARDS FOR OLD FOWLS. 



I suppose there are not two men who agree in regard to 

 what makes the best all-year-round breeding house. Some 

 will tell you that the long house is the better, while some will 

 maintain that the double-decker where the fowls have to climb 

 a ladder to go to roost is superior ; but both have their good 

 and bad points. A chicken house fit for chickens to live in 

 must have these three essentials : 



First, it must be free from dampness ; second, it must be 

 free from draughts ; third, it must be ventilated so that in zero 

 Weather the breath of the fowls will not cause the side of the 

 coop to frost. 



The following is a description of a house which has given 

 me good results ; it possesses the three essentials that I have 

 just mentioned : 



The house is 14 feet long and 12 feet deep, with a partition 

 in the middle which makes two breeding pens, each 7x12 ; 

 (the partition may be of wire but a board partition is better.) 

 The floor is of cement. In order to be damp proof, a cement 

 floor should be laid in the following manner ; Consider sills 

 as being four inches deep. First, put in two inches of gravel ; 

 over that an inch of cement. Let it harden for a day. Then 



