. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. .... built, there was no need of thisglass covered shed, except for rain, and for that a common boardor brush shelter would have answered quite as well as onethat was glass covered, but I wanted to test the working of acomplete house before I went on to multiply them, and so Ifinished the entire structure—glass shed and all. Keei)ing poultryat certain seasons
. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. .... built, there was no need of thisglass covered shed, except for rain, and for that a common boardor brush shelter would have answered quite as well as onethat was glass covered, but I wanted to test the working of acomplete house before I went on to multiply them, and so Ifinished the entire structure—glass shed and all. Keei)ing poultryat certain seasons and under favorable conditions is mere the air is balmy and the fields are green, almost any shelterwill answer for even the most tender little chicks, but when thestorms of winter and early spring are upon us, and snow, sleet andfrost cover the earth, then even the old birds find it hard work tomaintain their existence. These difficulties I had fully experiencedin former days, and I knew that while comfortable houses were anecessity, roomy sheds were no less essential. For this reason Ihad put a cheap roof over the manure pile, so that on wet andstormy days the hens might have a dry, warm place in which to 70 COMMON SENSE. be IN THE POULTRY YARD. 71 roll and scratch ; but aUhougli this miglit serve very well for fiftyhens, it was but a meagre allowance for five huiulred, not to speakof a thousand, or, as I hoped to have at times, 3,000. I thereforesaw that each yard must have its own slielter and its own glass-covered shed served on very cold days for a dusiingplace, and a sort of warm room, but it was not large eno;iL;h to ac-commodate 75 fowls. I tlierefore felt that a ])laii slied, opeii tothe south, and enclosed on at least the rear and one side, would bealmost a necessity, and so I put up one that was 10 feet long and8 feet wide. The height at the back was 2 feet and at the front6 feet. During the summer, when the sun was nearly vertical, thisafford
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