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AN EGG FARM. 



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weather, and at the same time afford hight enough to 

 give a circulation of air over the perches, and a proper 



pitch of roof. It is fif- 

 teen feet long, eight and 

 one-half feet wide, and 

 four and one-half feet 

 high at the peak. Let 

 it be noted that any at- 

 tempt to build so that 

 S the attendant may enter, 

 | either makes a stooping, 

 g slow job of every opera- 

 is tion, from year's end to 

 ^ year's end, or if the house 

 / 1 g is carried high enough to 

 2 'allow standing upright, 

 ^ the weight interferes with 

 '2 moving, and the lumber 

 / ,| < costs too much. It is as 

 a easy to reach into a build- 

 * ing designed for the 

 !ffl * keeper to stand outside, 

 ' = as to reach into a handy 

 sj cupboard. To give suf- 



2 ficient air, the room is as 

 fe 

 lofty in proportion to the 



size of the birds or their 

 breathing capacity, as a 

 stable twenty feet high 

 would be for cattle. It 

 is just about as neces- 

 sary for the poulterer to 

 have a roof over his head for protection in all weathers 

 while at work, as it is for a farmer to make a shed over 

 his land to defend his complexion from the sun while 

 haying, or from the rain while transplanting cabbages. 



