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Show The Three-Yard System. A three-yard system may be used In connection with single colony houses with one yard located on each side, as well as at the end. Only two yards are used at once, while a crop Is being be-ing started on the third. One yard Is Bown to wheat or rye in the fall, and another to oats, as early as possible In the spring, while the fowls occupy the third, but are let in to forage on the wheat shortly before feeding time each night to prevent waste by trampling. tram-pling. When the oats are nicely started the poultry Is given access to It, and the wheat as well, while the third lot Is being seeded to oats. Buckwheat Is used later on for green food. |