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There is a walk outside of the building extending along its entire 

 front. It is four feet wide and is made of two inch plank ; it is 

 elevated 2 feet above the floor of the building, which allows the 

 doors, thiough which the birds pass to the front yards, to be opened 

 and closed without interference. The door which opens out of each 

 room through the curtain section, is above the outside walk and 

 necessitates stepping up and down when passing through, which is 

 not a very serious objection, as the door is used but little in the 

 daily work, but mostly in cleaning out and renewing the floor litter. 

 A guard of wire 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 the elevated walk, over one on a level with the sill 

 of the building is that it is unobstructed by gates, which would be 

 necessary were the low walk used, to prevent the birds from passing 

 from one yard to another. 



YARDS. 



" The yards conform in width to the 20 foot sections of the house 

 and are 100 feet deep. The fence is five feet high and is made from 

 two strips of two inch mesh No. 19 poultry netting. By using two 

 strips of 30 inch width, instead of one strip double that width, two 

 strong lines of wire are brought in the middle and the liability of 

 bagging is much lessened, while the cost is not increased. 



To give free passage for teams near the door of the building, 

 openings 12 feet wide are left in the yard fences. They are 15 feet 

 away from the front of the building, so that the road may not be 

 obstructed with snow which is liable to accumulate near the build- 

 ing. The frame fence sections, which fill in the openings during the 

 summer, are quickly taken out and replaced on cleaning days, and 

 the delivery of bedding and worn litter, back and forth, from wagon 

 to buildings is very directly made." 



The Station Houses. 



In planning for experimental work with poultry in the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Amherst it was decided that 

 detached houses of precisely similar construction, each accom- 

 modating a single flock, would most surely afford that identity of 

 house conditions for each of the different flocks under comparison 

 which is essential for accurate experimental results. A view and 



