SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
inside of the pen to an angle of about 
forty-five degrees, to keep the birds from 
flying out, while others stretch a barbed 
wire or two a few inches above the top of 
the fence. If you have any of the Medi- 
terranean breeds, you will find it hard to 
keep them all confined in small yards 
without doing some wing-clipping; at 
least, that has been my experience. When 
you have a field or range fenced in, large 
enough for several different colonies, then 
they will not often fly over a six-foot 
woven-wire fence. 
The American, the English and the 
Asiatic breeds are easy to keep in small 
yards, and will seldom try to fly out. 
Yards can be built on both sides of an 
apartment house, and one side can be used 
by the poultry while the other side is 
being plowed and seeded, and after the 
seed has sprouted and grown into green 
pasture they can be turned into it and the 
yards on the other side can be treated in 
the same way. I like the long, narrow 
apartment house on account of giving 
more room for the yards. 
If the house is only ten feet wide, each 
room can have two yards, one on each 
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