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A Modern Bee-Fan 



CHAPTER XXVI. 

 POULTRY FARHINQ OF TO-DAY. 



THE methods of the farmer's wife, with her dozen or 

 two hens, in days gone by, can not compare u-ith 

 the systematic rearing of fowls now adopted. I 

 have already explained how the fowls must be spread out 

 in hundreds and thousands over the whole extent of the 

 farm, in many cases of course right away from the home- 

 stead. The land is thus benefited directly, without 

 becoming rapidly stale, as all the coops and rearers are 

 moved almost daily. 



Fixed Poultry Houses and Permanent Runs 



must be utterlj' condemned, as having no place in the 

 profitable management of the modern poultry farm. 

 Every pen must be movable, and until the grass crop 

 begins to grow there is no need to confine the breed- 

 ing fowls, and even then they should be in such pens 

 as are illustrated. 



After an extensive experience, during which I have 

 experimented with nearly every variety of fowls, I am 

 forced to the conclusion that 



Buff Orpington Hens 



are the most suitable for the table, for laying, and breeding 



