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is shown in fig. 6. It stands 12 in. above the ground ; 

 the stem of a small tree with the bark on, 6 ft. long x 

 3 in. thick, will do for the rail. 



In the centre of one side of the pen, a door will 

 have to be placed (fig. 1). Do not, however, cut the 

 small mesh wire netting and the lower rails, to enable 

 the door to open down to the ground, but leave this 

 netting intact, to bar, at all times, the incursions of 

 vermin. You can step over the wire ; and its presence 

 will prevent any chance escape of your birds as you 

 enter a pen to collect the eggs, or leave it. 



A small aviary, consisting of six such pens as here 

 described, to hold thirty hens and six cocks, should, 



FIG. 7. 



with proper management, give you 600 eggs. It is 

 easily and cheaply set up or removed, and its original 

 cost with fixing should not exceed 181 (fig. 9). If a 

 series of pens of 20 ft. square occupy too much ground, 

 or extend too far longitudinally, they can be made 

 30 ft. deep, by 10 ft. in front, as in fig. 7 ; but from 



