. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. the yardwas covered with a deep litter of clean oat straw. The feed, con-sisting of corn and oats, was sparingly fed by scattering the graininto the litter. This kept the flock working in the open and at thesame time insured sufficient exercise. This method did not requiremuch time or a great amount of extra work. As a matter of fact, thestraw was raked together each evening, covered during the night,and spread out again in the morning in a period of less than tenminutes. An example of such a yard is seen in
. A poultry survey of the cities of Champaign and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. the yardwas covered with a deep litter of clean oat straw. The feed, con-sisting of corn and oats, was sparingly fed by scattering the graininto the litter. This kept the flock working in the open and at thesame time insured sufficient exercise. This method did not requiremuch time or a great amount of extra work. As a matter of fact, thestraw was raked together each evening, covered during the night,and spread out again in the morning in a period of less than tenminutes. An example of such a yard is seen in the illustration offigure 7. HOUSING. The styles and kinds of houses varied from pack-ing cases, deserted dwelling houses, cow barns, and horse stables,to the most carefully and well constructed poultry houses. In mostcases, however, the shed roof style predominated. The concensus ofopinion was that this kind of house was simple and cheap to build. With a few exceptions, the houses as a whole, were large enough toaccommodate the flocks. One exception which stood out prominently 24. Figure 7. The yard was covered with a deep litterof clean oat straw. The feed consisting of corn and oatswas sparingly fed by scattering the grain into the kept the flock working in the open. 25. above the others is worthy of mention. The wife of a retired farmer owned one hundred and fiftyRhode Island Reds. These she divided into two equal lots. Seventy-five were placed in a cow barn, while the remainder were confinedin a yard provided with a poultry house of dimensions 8ft. x 6ft. x3-£ft. Those birds which were not strong or large enough to forcetheir way into the kennel, for, while it was built for a poultryhouse, it was not much larger than a fair sized dog kennel, were ob-liged to seek shelter under a heap of timber piled loosely in a cor-ner of the enclosure. The outcome of this state of affairs can wellbe imagined. Where the birds did not die of suffocation, especiallyduring the e
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