V 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Poultry Houses—Brooder Houses—Yards and Fences 
—The Incubator Cellar—Lice and Mites—Testing Eggs 
for Market—Teaching Your Birds to Love You—Eggs 
for Hatching. 
There are two differ- 
ent systems of housing 
poultry; one is the colony plan and the 
other is the apartment-house plan. The 
colony plan consists of a number of small 
houses set far enough apart so that the 
different flocks will not mix to any great 
extent, and is best adapted to poultrymen 
who have plenty of land for their flocks 
to run over. Its advantages are that it 
conforms closely to nature, and the birds 
are able to get more natural food during 
the summer months than birds that are 
closely confined, and they are not so liable 
to attack from diseases, and the expense 
of fencing off the different flocks is done 
away with. Its disadvantages are that it 
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