Show what the matter was people that keep poultry frequently ask the editor or others otherl what the matter Is with their chickens ebl elens frequently they will leave so much unstated that it Is impossible tor for the editor or any other to even guess what the tha trouble may be some ume time ago a farmer expressed his dissatisfaction with chickens ho he said eald he had eighty all plymouth rocks but that they did not lay lit lh was then february and d he had bad re ie delved i ved scarcely an egg since the previous summer something must be the matter with them dont they get too much corn no they dont got get very much corn some do they have any place to run and scratch yes have the run of the barnyard lots ot of room for scratching A few days afterward the writer had occasion to visit this man and ot of course he was interested in looking over ils As poultry wheres the chicken house arty any this Is a rented farm it pay me to build a chicken house the chickens are out behind the barn the writer went thither it was a cold day and the snow covered ano ground to the depth of a foot behind the barn he found the barnyard and at one end of the Iding was nn an open shed tor for the sheltering of 0 farm vehicles live stock block or any other thing that might need sheltering incidentally it was used tor for sheltering the eighty plymouth rocks the shed was open to the west and north and the northwest wind had bad a clean sweep in the back and top ot of this were the roosts boosts for or the fowls it strange they lay the owner had bad been putting food into these birds to help generate gec crato enough heat boat to keep them alive on the cold nights when they must burn up a vast amount ot of carbon carbonaceous accous matter to offset the loss of heat from their bodies he had been literally feeding the winds through the fowls this Is 13 the most extreme case that has ever come under the direct observation ot of the writer it Is a type of 0 the old stylo style of poultry raising which permitted the is fola ton Is to roost in the top too ot of the apple or in any other place they could find some men say that it Is natural tor for fowls to do that way its as that ayas was their custom before they were but before they were domesticated they lived in a warm warmer r clime than that prevailing over the northern united states we cannot reasonably expect to get winter eggs from fowls fouls so housed and should not find fault with the tha fowls for things directly ich argeo ble to the improvidence 0 of their owner we are satis fled that many ot of the mysteries reported to us from the poultry yards of our farms would be made clear could wo we buel but ook into those yards and see the true conditions |