LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait of Author Frontispiece 



1 Diagram for egg farm - 13 



2 Coop of growing chicks - - 24 



3 Stone cutter's dray . .. . _ - 27 



4 Scraper for dry earth 



5 Shovel for dry earth - 



6 Platform for drying earth 



7 Loading dry earth 



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8 Bottonfof dray - . - 33 



9 House for layers winter arrangement . 36 



10 House for layers summer arrangement ... 49 



11 Winter quarters for laying stock - - - 41 



12 Pen for moving fowls 42 



13 House for early hatched pullets - - 48 



14 House for breeders - - 52 



15 Yard and houses for breeders - ... 53 



16 Movable fence - 54 



17 Feed shelf ------- . _ 55 



18 Hammer for feed shelf 56 



19 Sash pulley - 58 



20 Office and watch house - - - .59 



21 House for sitters - 63 



22 House for sitters interior - 64 



23 Plan of yards for sitters - 66 



24 Coop for sitters ------ 76 



25 Apparatus for sitters ---- --.77 



26 Apparatus for sitters ---- . . _ 73 



27 Ground plan of hatching house - 82 



28 Section of covered yard - - - 83 



29 Interior of hatching house - 84 



30 Feed shelf and gate - 86 



31 Inside of house for sitters 94 



32 Details of apparatus for sitters - - - - 97 



33 Coop for hen and chicks ------- 93 



34 Boards and cleats 99 



35 Diagram of coop ----- _ 100 



36 Feed box for chicks - .- - - - - 100 



37 Feed box with grating - ' - 103 



38 Arrangement for opening feed boxes - 105 



39 Dubbed White Leghorns - - - - - - 107 



40 Manner of numbering nests - - 126 



41 Eggs laid by old hens ------ 134 



42 Eggs laid by pullets -------- 135 



43 Shelter for chickens - - - - 136 



44 Shelter of rails and straw ------- 137 



45 Granary and cookhouse ------- 139 



46 East side view of granary showing driveway - - 140 



47 Ground plan of granary and cookhouse - - - 142 



48 House for early chickens ------- 143 



