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side of the house. This, to my mind, is 
an ideal arrangement for an apartment 
house and yards. 
If you have houses on your place that 
have been built for other purposes, and you 
desire to use them for poultry apartments, 
you will have to arrange the yards, as best 
you can, to suit the houses. 
There should be in each yard some 
kind of shade. If the yards are to be 
plowed, some sort of a movable shade 
should be provided. Some poultrymen use 
canvas for this purpose, while others use 
lumber. If your fowls are Mediterraneans, 
canvas is the best, for they are not so apt 
to try to fly upon it as they are to fly upon 
a shade made of lumber. In either case 
the shade should be as high as the fence, 
and, if lumber is used, some wire netting 
two feet wide can be placed around and 
above the edges to prevent them from ris- 
ing in the air and alighting upon it. If 
the yards are wide enough, some perma- 
nent’ shade of some kind can be planted 
close along the side fences; raspberry or 
gooseberry bushes are sometimes used for 
this purpose; some people use flowering 
shrubs, which make the yards beautiful. 
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