. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 43 much with the hens as it is with the ones that try to l:eep them. In the large house that is made in such a way that one can go through it and see three or four pens at a time the attention is often diverted and thus many little things are over- looked at the time and later neglected, while if a man has a house with but one pen or two at the most, when he is in that house his whole time and attention is on that one small flock of hens and they get much better care and attention, for if something is nee
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 43 much with the hens as it is with the ones that try to l:eep them. In the large house that is made in such a way that one can go through it and see three or four pens at a time the attention is often diverted and thus many little things are over- looked at the time and later neglected, while if a man has a house with but one pen or two at the most, when he is in that house his whole time and attention is on that one small flock of hens and they get much better care and attention, for if something is needed he does it and is not interested by seeing something in the next pen that needs attention at the same time. There are so many little things that our hens need that should have prompt atten- tion that most men will overlook in a larger fiock, but with a dozen hens will look after at once. I have seen men that have a large house that have left the pail of feed in one pen, because in looking over in the next pen saw some hen that wanted care from some trouble, cold or crop bound or some other trouble, and would go out and get that hen and fuss with it, so that before the rest of the hens were fed it would be dark, and one lot had a big feed and another had nothing. You may say this would happen just the same if the hens had been in small houses; so it might, but the chances are in favor of the small house, because in the tirst place the work of looking after a lot of hens kept in small houses takes more time and you are among your hens more and see what is going on and will look after these small things much earlier. V'ou can feed much quicker in one long house and so very often do not gi\'e time enough to the work. 1 have noticed that people take better care of the small houses, and there is inuch less filth in the small houses than there is in the large ones. The air is much better in a small house, as one must open the door at least every time he enters the house, while in
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