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for a study of the relative merits of different kinds of 

 houses. A profitable study may be made of the housing 

 used where high egg records have been secured. 



The Australian laying competitions conducted at the 

 Hawkesbury Agricultural College for a number of years 

 have produced very high records. The houses used were 

 small, being 11 feet long and 6 feet wide, divided into two 



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A COLONY HOUSE WITH CURTAIN WINDOWS 



At the Utah Station the temperature reached 12 below zero and the Leghorns 

 shown in the picture escaped without injury to their combs. 



pens for six fowls each. This is equal to 5^ square feet 

 floor space. The outside yards were 87 x 17 feet. During 

 the winter the front of the house was closed up, and there 

 were wire openings at the bottom of the back of the house 

 and at the top. The fowls had more yard space than is 

 usual under intensive methods. Here we have a small 

 house with open front in which records averaging over 200 

 eggs per fowl were secured. The climate is mild there, some- 



