. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ure be left ingrass, which is indispensable in large poultryyards. The third division, reserved for the pro-duction of chicks from the nests, should bea large field with sheds or henhouses, eachable to accommodate from fifty to sixty henhouses should be about twelvefeet wide and thirty feet long, made entirelyof wood. Persons who have no such space as the aboveat their command, the inhabitants of towns, forinstance, can still enjoy the luxury of raising THE GALLINACEOUS TRIBES 233 their own chickens, i)ro\ided they
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. ure be left ingrass, which is indispensable in large poultryyards. The third division, reserved for the pro-duction of chicks from the nests, should bea large field with sheds or henhouses, eachable to accommodate from fifty to sixty henhouses should be about twelvefeet wide and thirty feet long, made entirelyof wood. Persons who have no such space as the aboveat their command, the inhabitants of towns, forinstance, can still enjoy the luxury of raising THE GALLINACEOUS TRIBES 233 their own chickens, i)ro\ided they ^ive themthe same food and turf that they have in thecountry. It is not necessary that the poultryyards should be so large. The space, however,must have sun, and must be covered first withashes and then with straw and trrain to force VIII. HkeedsThe Wyandottcs, which to-day are the mostin vogue, and which were bred originally inAmerica, have spread rapidly over the wholeof Europe. They are of various colors, themost desirable being white; then come the. A ) Hkn ;n the birds to take exercise. When city fowlsdo not get enough they often take topecking their eggs or plucking out their ownfeathers. It is needless to say that thesepoultry houses and \ards must be kept espe-cially clean to ward off diseases, which aremore to be feared in the city than in thecountry. silvery, the golden, the speckled, the black,anil the partridge colored. It is an excellentbreed, as good for its eggs as for its flesh,and a particularly good layer in winter. Thepullets raised in the spring will lay all eggs are a brownish yellow, sometimespink, and are small but numerous. The hensare the best of layers ; those which lay annually 234 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS jH 1 ^^^^^^H^ ^BnBHB ■^^— ^ .^^1 ^ li ^^^ y.—^-sj ^^^^^^B^^ ^ ■ :W AMU • • Poultry Yard from one hundred and fifty to a hundred andeighty eggs are by no means rare. The weightof the cock is
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