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mer quarters and to winter quarters. When this pen is 

 put in the place occupied by the feed room at the end of 

 the passage, Figs. 9 and 11, the fowls are baited into it, 

 the door, A, corresponding to an opening in the side of 

 the end of the passage, C. The partitions in the pen 

 separate the flock into squads, to prevent too many fowls 

 huddling together and trampling each other during 

 moving, at which time a canvas covering should exclude 

 the light. Chains may be passed around the ends of 

 the crosspiece for draft. The artist has made the 

 runners turn up too much, a bevel merely, like that on 

 the sills of the movable houses, being all that is necessary. 

 During the winter, a low structure, 6 ft. wide, 12 

 ft. long, and 1 1-2 ft. high on one side and 3 1-2 ft. on 

 the other, seen at the left in Fig. 9, serves the purpose 

 of a feeding room, and the rest of the year is used as a 

 shelter for chickens. Its winter location is about 4 ft. 

 from the larger building. E, E, E, E, represent doors, 

 which overlap each other to shed rain, and when closed 

 rest upon the highest or north wall, and open upwards 

 and to the south, resting upon a rail attached to posts 

 set in the ground. In each door is a window 3 ft. square, 

 glazed, as are all the windows in the various fowl houses, 

 greenhouse style. This feed house is movable, being 

 furnished with planks set edgewise, with runner-shaped 

 ends for side sills. Inside, a feed box, slatted on both 

 sides, rests on cleats attached to the end walls, 20 in. 

 from the north wall, and near the top of the room, so 

 that dirt cannot be scratched into it. It has a shelf 7 

 in. wide on both sides in front of the slats, on which 

 the birds stand while feeding, and contains a trough 

 made by nailing boards 3 in. wide to each edge of a 

 board 5 in. wide. A door, F, in. one end of the feed 

 room, large enough to admit a fowl, communicates with 

 a similar door, G, in the south side of the main build- 

 ing, by a movable covered passage 51-2 ft. long, 11-4 



