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Day-Old Chickens. 



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thatch and earth. A very suitable building may be made as 

 follows : — 



Place a row of posts, about 4 in. square, in a line, 2 ft. 

 apart, say for a distance of 100 ft. Then place another row 

 parallel, 12 ft. from the first, inside measurement. Let the posts 

 be 5 ft. high from the ground line. Place boards along the out- 

 sides of the posts on either side and also at the ends, where suitable 

 doors should be placed. Dig a ditch on each side of the posts, 

 3 to 4 ft. from them, and place the earth against the boards. 

 This will prevent the frost from getting in at the sides. Suit- 

 able plates and rafters may then be put on to the two rows of 

 posts, thus making a span-roof building. The top may then 

 be thatched with reeds, straw, or heather. The ends should be 

 double-boarded, and the cavities filled with sawdust. A ven- 

 tilator should be placed in the apex at the ends. The floor line 

 inside the house should be slightly above the outside ground 

 level, and, if possible, the building should be erected on a gentle 

 slope. The inside may be fitted with three rows of shelves or 

 benches on either side. 



An inexpensive store house may thus be erected, and the later 

 kinds of fruit stored until selling time. Free ventilation should 

 be afforded for a period of six weeks after picking the fruits to 

 allow the moisture to exude from them. Afterwards the store 

 house may be kept closed, maintaining an average temperature 

 of from 38 to 42 deg. Fahr., as near as possible, but sudden 

 changes in the outside temperature will naturally have some 

 influence upon that inside the fruit store. 



W. G OAR I NO. 



DAY-OLD CHICKENS. 



Many developments have taken place within recent years 

 in the poultry industry, which has grown enormously, not only 

 in respect to the production of eggs and table poultry, but in 

 various other directions, all of which add to the returns 

 obtained by poultry breeders and increase the production. 

 Not the least of these is the sale of day-old chickens. Ten 

 years ago it was almost unknown in this country, but with the 



