utilize the serai's from the family table in feeding them, rather than buy expensive feeds. In fact, this utilization of garbage will otherwise be wasted is the basis of economical poultry-keeping. Although no exact supply of the matter has been made, it is asserted that there are few families there would not support ten hens at least on the table scraps, while many could support twice that many.

Reduce Chickens in Winter.
Of course, many flock of ten hens means more than that number of chickens including cocks and young stock in the summer. However, both of these classes should be eaten before Christmas, and only the hens supported through the winter when fed is scarce. During the summer, green food is cheap. In the winter, the flock should be kept down to such size that it will be necessary to purchase little feed.

A good idea, if how much room you must have to keep chickens, may be had from the fact that at the government experimental poultry farm, their hens are kept on a large twenty-five by 200 feet. Thus, your hens might be kept in a runway of one-third as many as possible, for such results should have a somewhat larger area.

In addition, the poultry farm, where the hens are kept on a runway of one-third as many as possible, should have a somewhat larger area.  The chickens are preparing one, the other should be sown in wheat, oats, or other fine-growing grain. The birds should be rotated over three feet, three feet during the growing season, the chickens being turned on the sprouting grain wheat is a few inches high. 