Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-26
YARDS FOR LAYING STOCK.
Advice as to Planning Poultry House
 ard Surroundinas.

 Advice as to Planning Poultry House
 ard Surroundings.
 When plans are being made for the construction of a permanent poultry house it is important that the building be so situated that the birds will be allowed plenty of yard room There should be yards both at the front and rear of the building and they should be large enough to provide green pas turage for the fouls from April to De- cember. The double-yard system is most desirable. because it permits of cropping one yard while fouls run in ly square as possible. as hens run in a sernicircle from the house, so that a long narrow yard is almost wasted space in the part farthest from the building.
 On commercial poultry farm there should be one large yard in which all the birds from the various pens can run together so that cultivating with a horse can be easily accomplished and the cost of yarding be reduced to a minimum A building to accommodate 500 hens should stand in the center of a two-acre tract. half being used one year and the other half the next A larger plot may be used, but never smaller. because it will be impossible to keep the yards green withN this
  weeks. If hens are allowed too much freedom they will use much of their surplus energy chasing bugs and worms and will neglect the dry mash hopper and the nest Where very large yards are available it is wise to keep hens in the house until noon and the re- mainder of the day allow them free range
 Shade is very essential in the poultry yard and if trees are not already pres ent they should be set out at once. Cherry trees make the most desirable shade trees in a poultry yard. in fact. sweet cherries are said to do much better when hens run than they do under any other condition Plums, prunes, quinces or crabapple may be used with fair results. Peaches never do well with poultry because they grow too rapidly under the rich manur- ing from the fowls and apple trees yield well. but the fruit is very poor quality. Corn or sunfiowers may be grown close to the building until the trees get their growth for use as shade, corn being preferable because the crop Is more valuable and it takes less out of the soil.
 Thinning Peaches.
 According to Prof HoIlister of the Connecticut Agricultural College peaches should be thinned this season, AOA lAO1C AS d 1uAA CIOP uEAcSS c1Cll tree IS allowed enough space to de- velop to its maximum there will be a quantity of second grade fruit offered for sale. Peaches should be thinned so that they will be at least five to six inches apart In thinning. always take of those which are misshapened or injured by insects. leaving only first class fruit on the tree. A tree which is loaded, will, if 1t is thinned produce as many baskets of fruit. as one which is not so thinned. but the one which is thinned will produce only first class fruit while the other one will have quantity of small and second grade peaches. It is easier to pick and drop small green peaches on the ground than it Is to pick those same peaches later and put each one in a basket The cost of thinning any kind of fruit (apples. pears. plums or peaches) is more than made up by the time save6 in harvesting and grading and also by the increased price of the greater amount of first grade fruit
 Do Not Cut Alfalfa After September i. have been seriously injured because of winter killing due to lack of winter protection The best protection that one can have is a sufficient growth of alfalfa to act as cover crop in the winter. This means that September 1 dDOuI the latest that one SnOu1u cut alfalfa seed if he desires to get enough growth to- allow sufficient protection Thus warning is made to those who are growing alfalfa not to cut their pieces after September l. Even if there is a growth of to 10 inches, one need not worry about smothering since the stems of alfalfa will stand erect throughout the winter. Those who seeded early in the spring and have got a good growth should make an effort to get it cut before this time.
 Setting Out Raspberry Canes.
 The proper way to start a new plan tation of red raspberries is to selct only the newest of the canes Suppose you desire to transplant this fall, se- lect for planning only the suckers that came up this year. These suckers will harden off as the season advances. and by October they will be fully matured canes and full of dormant fruit buds for next years crop. Should trans planting be postponed to early spring, the same kind of cares should be Se- lected-
 Best results are obtained when rasp- berries, whether red or black, are transplanted in the fall. The plant is entirely dormant at that season land there is less danger of injurying the new suckers. which start very early in the spring. and as these suckers off. It is surprising how very early in the spring the new canes begin to start from the root The frost is scarcely out of the ground before the rIldimentary canes start to grow. In the fall, these canes are merely bud like enlargements on the roots. and to transplant the canes at that season one is sure to have a good growth of new wood the following year.
 Concrete Pits for Manure.
 Visit your neighbor. go to his barn, large and 1uxuriant growth of grass on the lower side of the field running down from this pile. ask how much money he is putting into commercial fertilizers, then judge how much it is costing him to build up the fertility of his soil and grow his large crops The dairyman with F to 30 head of