FOR SITTERS IN MILD 



ter. To protect against heat in our model house for 

 sitters at the southwest, a tight, level floor should 

 extend from plate to plate, making an air chamber of 

 all the space in the building above the posts. This floor 

 may consist of matched stuif or of straight edged boards, 

 reinforced by building paper. The roof gets hot and 

 this air chamber protects the fowls, and their attendant 

 also. A shutter of liberal dimensions, in each gable 

 near the peak, governed by cords, must be kept open in 

 summer, to permit the heated air to escape, but it must 

 not be allowed to escape in winter, as it serves a useful 

 purpose during the cool nights. 



The length of the building is 155 ft., 144 ft. of which 

 are in the hatching room. The width is 11 1-2 ft., 

 width of central alley, 2 1-2 ft. Measurements in the 

 direction across the alley arc as follows : Nest, 1 1-3 ft. ; 

 treadle, 1 2-3 ft. ; feeding space, 1 1-2 ft. The roof is 

 double, that is, it slants down from the ridge in two 

 directions. An alley for the attendant is dug in the 

 ground, lengthwise of the building, in the center, 2 1-2 

 ft. deep and stoned or bricked at the sides. The build- 

 ing is double, there being nests, treadles, and a feed 

 space each side of the alley. Immediately adjoining the 

 alley on each side is a row of nests at the bottom of the 

 fowl house proper, thus they will be 2 1-2 ft. above where 

 the attendant stands. The place where work is to be 

 done should be of this convenient hight, for the same 

 reason that a store counter or a work bench stands above 

 the floor. It was a big mistake to locate nests, brooders, 

 etc., on a level with the poultry keeper's feet, as has been 

 done all over the United States. 



A car runs the whole length of the building on a rail- 

 road in the alley, twenty inches above the bottom of the 

 alley, the rails being held by supports fixed in the walls. 

 As ease and dispatch in certain portions of the work 

 depend on this transportation feature, the rails and the 



