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purchased from some _ poultry-supply 
house. If you have to buy new lumber 
of which to build your poultry house, per- 
haps it would be just as cheap and more 
satisfactory to buy a ready-made house 
from some poultry-supply house. 
There are some beautiful little houses, 
with runs attached, made of galvanized 
sheet-iron, for the purpose of supplying 
the back-yard poultryman with just what 
he needs. These are sold by the poultry- 
supply houses very reasonable, and are 
just what you need for your little plant. 
They are easy to clean and manage, and 
can be easily moved about from one place 
to another. 
Perhaps it would be well to say a word 
here about crowding, although I have 
spoken on the subject in another chapter: 
“Don’t crowd your little back-yard poultry 
plant, for if you do you will get disgusted 
and throw up the whole thing; for if you 
crowd your birds, lice and mites will be 
harder to keep down and disease will get 
the upper hand. Nothing is more disgust- 
ing than a filthy, sickly coop of chickens. 
Twelve is about the right number of 
grown birds for such a small plant; of 
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