166 PROGRESSIVE POULTRY CULTURE 



FATTENING 

 CRATE-Length 

 seven and one- 

 half feet, divided 

 into three com- 

 partments, each 

 two and one-half 

 feet in length; 

 height eighteen 

 inches; depth 

 eighteen inches. 

 MATERIAL 

 Posts for corners 

 and where parti- 

 tions are inserted 

 are one and one- 

 quarter inches by 

 one inch stuff. 

 Top and bottom 

 rails are one inch 

 by two inches. 

 Slats for front are 

 one-quarter inch 

 by three-eighths 

 and are s.et two 

 inches apart. 

 The top is of 

 three- eighths 

 inch matched 

 lumber an d i s 

 made tight. The 

 bottom is made 

 of triangular 

 strips one inch 

 in thickness, one 

 and one-quarter 

 inch in width 

 at the base 

 and one-quarter 

 inch at the apex. 

 (In the drawing 

 these are shown 

 two inches 

 apart). The ad- 

 vantage of bot- 

 tom strips of this 

 shape lies in the 

 fact that they 

 make the coop 

 practically self- 

 cleaning. 



Each compart- 

 ment is provided 

 with a door 

 eight inches by 

 twelve inches in 

 size, made of 



one-half inch stuff. A heavy wire, stapled both to the door and to 

 the slats beside it, forms a hinge, permitting the door to swing in- 

 ward. A staple driven into the slat near the bottom of the door pre- 

 vents the latter from swinging outward. In order to econ9mize space 

 in the fattening building, these coops may be used in two tiers, 

 the bottom of the first tier being approximately eighteen inches 

 from the floor, and of the second tier eight inches above the top of 

 the lower tier. 



FATTENING CRATE 



