AN EGG FARM. 



others, and are, therefore, sheltered at greater expense. 

 Winter laying depends more on breed, age, feeding and 

 health, than upon warm rooms. Heat is necessary to 

 productiveness, but a fowl kept in full vigor and good 

 appetite by exercise will be warm, where a dull, mopish 

 one would shiver. It will not pay to build expensive 

 fowl houses when cheap ones can be used, and the 

 arrangement we are about to describe involves as much 

 outlay as is advisable, in order to secure warmth, except- 

 ing for some special purposes. A mound of earth, 



FIG. 13. HOUSE FOR EARLY HATCHED PULLETS. 



nearly circular, and 25 ft. broad at the narrowest point, 

 is raised by scraping with the team. It should be 3 1-2 

 ft. high at the center, and slope gradually to a level 

 with the surface of the field. Upon this mound a cellar 

 is dug 7 1-2 ft. by 14 1-2 ft., and 3 ft, deep, the bottom 

 being 6 in. higher than the average of the surface beyond 

 the mound. The cellar is walled substantially with 

 stone, laid in cement, and floored with the latter mate- 

 rial. Stations furnished with such cellars are upon a 

 part of the farm where there is a gentle slope, and, 



