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food, so essential to rapid development, and it also wards off 

 any tendency toward leg weakness which is apt to result from 

 heavy eating without exercise. Exercise on a grassy range is 

 the greatest boon of all. Give fowls range and clean living 



(Courtesy MiUion Egg Farm) 

 Fig. 213. — Portable hover installed in a simply constructed coop. 



quarters and their keeper can almost afford to throw away all 

 the medicine bottles. 



Over-crowding. — By all means avoid over-crowding at this 

 season, which is saying a good deal. Where large flocks are kept 

 it is not so easy as it sounds, even if sufficient buildings are 

 available. Chicks have strange ways. They are gregarious; 



