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acco siine. and bruising me generelly.Painful and a big nuisance, Could not 
if. use the typewriter for over a week. “Cannot yet do up my hair myself, 
Try doing yours with only your left hand. I cannot fisure out whether’ 
the Lora is: ‘trying, to head me off from some of my activities; or if this 
is nively a test to see if I*ve got what it takes, Anyway, I'm still 
pottering around, missing Relph terribly, and getting a lot of enjoy- 
_ ment out of life. Sixty eight last month. 
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Be wat Cats ‘Back yard Chickens by an 014 Ledy. 
The pucreaucrats want us to increase poultry production and then deny 
us needed equipment, I em using @ modification of the Philo System, and 














culled my flock down to weat I cen properly care for, Now that gardening 
time is here, they stay in the coos until late in the afternoon, which 
fee pare them time to eat grass and ch se bugs but not do much scratching. 
" ganttetion ig the mein point, The reculation Philo coops ere too 
iy heavy for woman to move, an and were designed to remain in one spot and 
Be ground be wpahedd i find that too straining, and now my coops are built 
i with permenent walls of poultry netting, and removable wooden walls. 
a Be: Wid few days the wooden walls are removed, the coop moved to fresh 
ae ground, walls replaced and former site spaded. My land is infested with | 
) ‘Bermuda, Dallis and Johnson grasses. Could not possibly dig them out my 
self, nor hire a man for the job; but the chickens gladly eat the mote } 
| ae which are todsensa: ty the @igeing, when the coop iemoved back to the 
; former site. Rocks and trash are thrown out as I dig, instesd of all at 
. one tine, which makes. lighter work, and when a spot is fully clesned out, 
the coop will be moved further over and that spot planted, 
Ir find that Oxpingtone, Dark Brahmas, Blue Andalusiabs and most 
