. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . snug and laying begins we must see to it that nothingoccurs to stop the flow of eggs, for if it once stops,in all probability it will not begin again until spring,when eggs have become cheap. Some people thinkit is necessary to build expensive houses to get thehens to lay in winter. This is a mistake. Quite asgood results have been obtained from some oldbarn or outbuilding converted into winter quarters,or from some inexpensive home-made structure, asfrom a costly house built for the purpose. The ob-ject of a house is to make
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . snug and laying begins we must see to it that nothingoccurs to stop the flow of eggs, for if it once stops,in all probability it will not begin again until spring,when eggs have become cheap. Some people thinkit is necessary to build expensive houses to get thehens to lay in winter. This is a mistake. Quite asgood results have been obtained from some oldbarn or outbuilding converted into winter quarters,or from some inexpensive home-made structure, asfrom a costly house built for the purpose. The ob-ject of a house is to make the hens , then, is a hens idea of comfort? Is it not awarm place to sleep at night, where there is nodanger of draught or dampness, yet where the airis pure; and a cheery place to work in during theday? Her ideas in this are not so different, afterall, from those of some of her featherless constructing a house, let the farmer keep inmind the following principles, then build according 333 334 PROFITABLE STOCK CARE OF HENS IN WINTER. 335
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