222 AN EGG FARM. 



k and the wire netting, i, is to confine a fowl during 

 tilting, should one chance to remain in the tilt box, a 

 thing very unlikely to occur, however, unless the bird is 

 a new acquisition, an untrained recruit. 



The longitudinal section of the same building, Fig. 

 118, is substantially on a line through c 2 in the trans- 

 yerse section, Fig. 117, and through the same upright 

 post, c 2 , in the ground plan, Fig. 135. In Fig. 118, the 

 room between c 2 and c 2 is given to one flock, that is, the 

 space is devoted to one apartment or stationary box, two 

 call cylinders, e, e, being employed so as 

 to drop grain over space enough to give 

 all the birds a fair chance. 



There is only a single perch for each 

 flock and this is not shown, as it is not 

 in line, but it is placed over the roost 

 floor, r, and extends the whole length of 

 the room from c 2 to c 2 . A scantling, v, 



FIG. 112. CASTER 



WHEEL UNDER reaching from w to w, supports the floor 

 of the nesting apartment, x, the top of 

 this apartment being indicated by u, just over which 

 runs the cylinder axle. The movable nest boxes are 

 made so that they can be easily reached by the attendant 

 from the passage, g, in Fig. 117. 



The ground plan, Fig. 135, calls for but slight descrip- 

 tion after it has been compared with the vertical sec- 

 tions. The space separated by the dotted lines in which 

 the blocks, m, stand, is, of course, devoted to the con- 

 tinuous tilt box divided by partitions into smaller tilt 

 boxes. This multiform or compound tilt box is as long 

 as the whole building, minus a little at one end, where 

 the stairs are which lead to the attendant's passage, 

 these stairs being indicated by s, s, near which is the 

 outside door. This multiform tilt box muse have 

 attached either the winch, Fig. 138, or the long lever, 

 Fig. 88, and, in case the latter is employed, a short wing 



