FARM BUILDINGS 



above the floor. AH food and water are car- 

 ried through on this car. 



At one end of the building is a feed-room 

 with a small boiler for washing and preparing 

 birds for market. A walk is outside the house, 

 and extends its entire length. It is four feet 

 wide and made of two-inch plank; it is elevated 

 two feet above the floor of the building, which 

 allows the doors through which chickens pass 

 to the yards to be opened and closed without 

 interference. A guard of poultry netting a foot 

 wide along the outside of the walk prevents the 

 birds from flying from the yards up to the walk. 

 The advantage of this walk is that it is unob- 

 structed by gates, which would be necessary 

 were the low walk used to prevent the birds 

 from passing from one yard to another. The 

 yards should be the width of the pens and one 

 hundred feet long. It is an advantage to have 

 double yards, in order that one yard may be 

 ploughed up each year and planted to rye or 

 clover. If new buildings are to be erected then 

 it is wise to put everything but the poultry and 



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