HOUSE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 



In long houses, every third or fourth partition 

 should be boarded up entirely to the roof in order 

 to prevent drafts from sweeping through the length 

 of the house. 



The gates, or doors, through which the attend- 

 ant passes from one pen to another, are placed 

 toward the front of the partitions, so that they 

 close against the studding in the front wall of the 

 house. The gates are hung to a 2 x 4-inch scant- 

 ling which is placed in each partition three feet 

 back in the house from the front wall. This makes 

 all the gates come on a line with the outside door, 

 which in all three houses is situated in the end wall, 

 as shown in the illustration of House No. i. There 

 are no openings of any kind in the rear wall and the 

 one end wall. 



The bottom board of the inside partition runs 

 the entire width of the house, and so, on this, the 

 gate is set ten or twelve inches above the floor. 

 Two boards of similar width are used to make the 

 lower part of the gate solid and in keeping with 

 the remainder of the partition. The upper body 

 of the gate may be covered with any convenient 

 netting or fencing. The 2x4 scantling previously 

 mentioned is also useful for fastening the other 

 boards and the wire used in the construction of the 

 partition. 



The hen holes in the front wall are 12x16 

 inches, being small hinged doors which may be 



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