40 AN EGG FARM. 



on the dray. The door, D, one foot wide, opening 

 downwards, is for removing the pail and gravel boxes 

 when desired, and when fastened ajar will be found 

 more convenient for ventilation than the roof doors, 

 when the weather is only moderately warm. Both ends 

 of the building alike are furnished with doors. 



In the summer this building may have its roof doors 

 partly opened by day, as in Fig. 10, and its sills rest on 

 the ground, ready for moving ; but during the severest 

 weather, generally about three or three and a half 

 months of the year, this building does not stand with 

 sills upon the ground, but it rests, as in Fig. 11, upon 



FIG. 10. HOUSE FOR LAYKRS SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 



the edges of a box or bin, B, of dimensions correspond- 

 ing with the center of the sills of the building, made of 

 planks nine inches wide and two inches thick, like a 

 mortar bed with no bottom, filled with dry earth. This 

 should be set upon ridges thrown up by the plow or 

 road grader, as previously described, and it will be 

 found that, by starting with the earth dry in the fall, it 

 will not absorb moisture from the ground beneath dur- 

 ing winter any faster than it dries away from the sur- 

 face, where the fowls keep it stirred. There need be no 

 cleaning of the house while thus arranged for winter, 



