50 AN EGG FARM. 



be gauged by every change of wind and weather. It is 

 one of the advantages of business upon a large scale, 

 that operations which it would not pay to attend to with 

 one flock, may be afforded where there are many. 

 Unless the mats are put on before sundown, and some- 

 tim-es on a mild day on a part of the windows at noon, 

 so much glass will prove injurious because the fluctua- 

 tions in temperature will be too violent. 



The buildings are kept over the cellars only in winter, 

 and are drawn on and off the sills above the walls by the 

 use of small rollers, and a horse attached to tackle. The 

 cellars must not lie idle after the houses are moved, but 

 be roofed with the platforms for drying earth, and a few 

 movable greenhouse sashes, and used as a shelter for 

 chickens. 



