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Practical Game Preserving. 



At Fig. i is given a plan of a 3oft. long hatching house, 

 combining all the desirable qualities of such an erection, 

 and which will, if necessary, accommodate twenty-four sitting 

 hens at one time. In the illustration boxes for only twelve 

 hens are depicted. It may be as well to give further details 

 of the construction than are set down in the references. The 

 back if possible should be a stone or brick wall, but this 

 is no sine qua non, and it can, with equal utility, be of wood, 

 as are the sides and divisions (a a a a). The former need 

 not extend right up to the roof, a height of four feet or so 



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FIG. 2. SECTION OF HATCHING HOUSE. 



being amply sufficient. The side and front portions marked 

 b are of wire netting, boarded up one foot high all round, 

 as shown at Fig. 2, while the outer roof (a, Fig 2), is of the 

 same material. The inner roof (b, Fig. 2), and which 

 extends only half way across the pen, is of board overlapped. 

 At e e e (Fig, i) are doors'by which to pass from one division 

 of the pen to another, the object of dividing them being that 

 when the sitting hens are let off in the morning, one can, by 

 allowing half of them out at once have but two or at most 

 four hens at a time in each division off their nests, and so 



