MISCELLANEOUS 
dirt or soil from the field; this should 
be done while you are using it for a 
brooder house as well as when you are 
using it for laying hens. 
Where the apartment 
plan is used and too many 
birds are in each yard to allow the grass 
to grow, double yards may be used, and 
in the summer-time, while the birds are 
occupying one yard, the other can be 
plowed up and sown to some quick-grow- 
ing crop such as rape, lettuce, radishes, | 
turnips, ete. This plan keeps the soil 
fresh and pure, and gives the fowls a fre- 
quent change of pasture, besides giving 
them at all times a supply of green food; 
all of which is conducive to the health of 
the birds and to the profits of the poultry- 
man. 
The fence should be a good, substantial 
one of woven wire about six feet high, and 
if some of the birds persist in flying over 
it their wing feathers may be clipped. The 
feathers of one wing only should be 
clipped. 
Some poultrymen use fencing wide 
enough to extend above the posts about 
two feet, and then bend it towards the 
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