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of the floor at the rear of the coop and also at the front, 

 too small for rats to enter, and the animal heat will 

 cause cold air to flow in at the very bottom of the coop, 

 while comparatively warm air will escape near the top. 

 While the small A coops are good enough for ordinary 

 use, yet some early chicks of the classes of breeders and 

 sitters, which are to be reared under the most favorable 

 auspices possible, are housed at scattered stations in the 

 cellars vacated in early spring by the early-hatched pul- 

 lets, and so have the advantage of a wide range. The 

 house for pullets, a description of which has been given, 

 is illustrated by Fig. 13. When this pullet house is 

 moved off from the cellars, the latter are covered by 

 some of the earth platforms, Fig. 6, a glazed sash being 



FIG. 42. EGGS LAID BY PULLETS. 



temporarily hinged to one, after removing some boards, 

 for a door. The platforms are laid two deep, as shown 

 in Fig. 48. When the chicks are old enough to run in 

 and out of the underground passage in the wall of earth 

 in the foreground of this cut, they are restricted at first 



