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AX EGG FARM. 



devoted to crops. A strip of ground is left un tilled near 

 the doors of the buildings for a wagon path. To keep 

 the yards free from taint and afford scratching ground, 

 a part of each is plowed occasionally during the season 

 when they are occupied by the fowls. All the fences 

 running east and west, as F B, are composed of gates, 

 so that by opening, for instance, at F G, through the 

 whole range of yards, a strip of each may be plowed, 

 and in a few days the operation may be repeated at 

 another part of the yards. 



To these yards, movable runways, made in sections, 

 are annexed, not shown in the ground plan, Fig. 23, 



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FKi. '23. PLAN OF YARDS FOR SITTERS. 



and these runways extend to distant yards, where there 

 are feed shelves, hammers, and so on, exactly like those 

 in the yards for breeders, previously described. The 

 paramount consideration is the welfare of the sitters 

 when enga.o-ed in incubation. For the management of 

 sitters in the buildings just described, see Chapter XIV. 



HATCHING BY WHOLESALE. 



There is a better plan than the one just described for 

 houses and nests for silting hens in the southwest, where 

 the poultry business is destined, for reasons briefly stated 



