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Title: The Farm-poultry
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poultry Northeastern States Periodicals Poultry Industry Northeastern States Periodicals
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : I.S. Johnson and Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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y. I tried the system forfive years, and it worked beautifully. I noticed in Mr. Browns article that the chickenswere turned into certain fields at certain hours of theday by an attendant, so that each lot of chickens shouldhave its turn at the vegetables. I managed my ownchickens, and I was away from the house the most of theday. I simply gave mine free range in their run until 1thought it best to take them out again. The only dilli-culty was to know when to turn them out without injuryto the crop of rape. But rape, especially on well fertil-ized soil, will survive pretty rough treatment, and itdoesnt take long to learn how much it will stand. Isowed mine broadcast very early in the spring, and let itget a fairly good size before turning the chickens in. After a variety of experiments I settled down to thesystem outlined above. To those of the readers ofFarm-Poultry who are not familiar with rape and thesystem of north and south runs, I recommend a fairtrial. E. L. C. Morse. Chicago.
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(Bracket Fowls, Ed i t or i al Page of Farm-Poultry Writing From the Poultry Yard. COMMERCIAL POULTRY, calling attention to its removal from the city ofChicago and to the opportunity afforded its editor to get in practical touchwith the real work of breeding poultry, provokes editor Purvis, of Poultry,to remark that there are now three poultry papers in this country edited from thepoultry yard, the other two being Poultry and Farm-Poultry. Editor Barnes, ofthe Michigan Poultry Breeder, not willing to be left out of such good company, rises tosay that for over thirteen years the Breeder has been edited from a country-city home. We do not know personally how all the editors of poultry journals are situated, butthere are a few others to include in a list of this kind. Indeed we doubt that there aremany papers in the growing list of poultry journals that have not either an editor,associate editor, or at least sjK-cial contributor who is actually a poultry keeper. Buithe mere fact that a m

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