HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1910 
Poultry Queries 
W E are contemplating' making some 
changes in our poultry house and 
yard. Have decided not to raise any more 
chickens—buying pullets each year for egg- 
supply only. Have had always Plymouth 
Rocks (barred), but they are such inveterate 
setters that we would like to try some other 
breed. 
Please answer the questions given below, 
for which accept our thanks in advance: 
(1) What size house for 30 or 40 hens? 
(at present 8 x 17 ft.). 
(2) What size yard (two yards to be used 
alternately) ? 
(3) What breed for best layers? 
(4) Is it better to feed grain in summer 
in troughs or scattered on ground? (Latter 
method feeds sparrows and all the doves in 
the neighborhood.) 
(5) Is a drinking-fountain better than a 
two-quart pail? 
(6) How many nests required for 30-40 
hens? 
(7) Should ground oyster-shells, charcoal, 
grit and salt be kept before hens all the time? 
(8) What actually is grit? 
(1) A house 8 x 17 feet should give 
ample roosting and nesting room for a 
Hock of thirty or forty hens. One used 
by the writer is 7 feet wide, 15 feet long 
and 10 feet high from peak to floor, and 
is satisfactory during spring, summer and 
fall. In winter, however, a scratching 
shed of equal area is desirable. It need 
not be higher than three feet. It should 
adjoin the hennery, and a section of its 
roof should be movable to allow a change 
of litter. The sunlight should be freely 
admitted to this through glass. 
(2) For the active-laying breeds, three 
runs, about 10 x 40 feet, to be used al¬ 
ternately by the flock of forty hens, are 
advisable. Where two are used the di¬ 
mensions should be greater—-say 10 x 60. 
(3) The Leghorn, Minorca, Black 
Spanish, Hamburgs and other light-built, 
agile fowls are the recognized layers 
where one works for eggs only. 
Of the general-purpose breeds, the 
White Wyandottes are very satisfactory 
if stock is selected from a good-laying 
strain. If one does not care to do his 
own hatching, he may have eggs from his 
own prolific layers hatched for him. 
(Continued on page 27.) 
LEGHORNS 
150 acres devoted to Standard Bred S. C. W 
Leghorns for Winter Egg Production. 
We are sold out of females; only 500 cockerels 
left for sale. Booking orders for Eggs for hatch¬ 
ing in January. 
WILSON FARM, Morristown, N.I. 
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