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For the purpose of carrying on more extensive breeding work a long, con- 

 tinuous house was built in the fall of 1912. This building is 208 feet long, 12 feet 

 wide, 8 feet high in front, and 5 feet high at the back. The house is single 

 boarded with inch lumber, the cracks battened. It rests on a concrete foundation 

 8 inches wide at the bottom and 6 inches at the top, the floor also being of concrete 

 3 inches in thickness. Below the floor is at least 8 inches of small stones, on which 

 was placed enough gravel to allow the laying of the floor. Our experience is that 

 it requires at least 8 inches of filling such as small stones, etc., beneath the concrete. 

 The studs are 2 inches by 4 inches placed 3 feet 6 inches apart and the rafters 

 2 inches by 6 inches each placed 2 feet apart. 





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For breeding work it is often advisable to mate small pens. This house is 

 divided into thirty-two pens each 6 feet 6 inches wide, each pen accommodating 

 about eight or ten birds. A dropping-board three feet from the floor is used. 

 There are two roosts four feet long to each pen. 



A portion of each partition is made movable so that larger pens may be had 

 should they be required. Four and one-half feet from the back they are of matched 

 lumber and stationary, the balance being of two wooden frames covered with nine- 



