NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.
The poultry man should give his fowls something to do, and he shouldn't overfeed them. A small scratching shed may easily be made by nailing wide boards into a square, sticking an upright at each corner, and a roof on top. The boards should be two feet high', and the space inside should be filled with straw, dry horse manure, leaves, cocky chaff—anything in fact that the birds can kick about and keep busy with. The grain should be thrown into this litter, and if the birds are kept a bit on the hungry side they will always be rooting about in the litter, and will keep well, and.lay better as 3 consequence of the exercise.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 17 February 1915, Page 7
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