GARDEN YARD za 
heat. This does away with all danger from fire 
and over-heating, and gives the chickens a vig- 
orous constitution that will enable them to with- 
stand all the ills to which chickens are liable. 
These suggestions are not given as great dis- 
coveries, but they are a brief summary of the 
practical points of chicken raising, and are all 
workable. Some of them are given by the Rev. 
W. W. Cox, as the results of years of personal 
experience in the business. He is now making 
a specialty of raising White Orpingtons, and is 
brooding out of doors, with success. 
There are many branches of the “ chicken- 
tree,’ the more important ones being breeding 
stock, or fancy poultry; egg farming, broiler 
farming and roaster growing. Running a pub- 
lic hatchery, and selling day-old chicks, is the 
latest development, and is indeed so intensive 
that it links manufacture to farming, for the 
building site is the only ground required. 
These branches are recommended to the inex- 
perienced poultryman in the following order:— 
Ist, Egg farming; 2d, roaster growing; 3d, fancy 
poultry; 4th, broiler production. 
Egg farming, properly conducted, is profit- 
ble in almost any locality. Roaster farming 
has proved a great success near Boston, but 
has not been largely introduced into other 
