138 AN EGG FARM. 



quarters, Fig. 11, with brush or cornstalks added to 

 keep the wind from blowing the straw away. 



While speaking of shade for young chicks, it may be 

 said here that for shade for layers at the colony stations, 

 bins, E, Fig. 43, may be drawn upon the ground by the 

 team, occasionally, so as to never be very far from the 

 building when the latter is shifted, and some of the earth 

 platforms are moved about for the same purpose, when 

 not employed in the dry earth harvest. By using plat- 

 forms at one station, straw mat screens at another, and 

 movable booths of evergreen boughs at a third, neigh- 

 boring premises are made to look unlike. In this way, 

 all the various fixtures in the whole establishment are 

 kept in use summer and winter, and chickens and grown 

 fowls are sheltered from sun, wind and rain under 

 structures that afford a great deal of ground room, which 

 is what counts, but they are low like the houses, and, 

 therefore, made with but little lumber. 



