20 THE PRACTICAL POULTRY KEEPER. 



accommodation for sick or injured fowls. In Mr. Lane's 

 establishment hot-water pipes (a a) were laid along the back 

 of the passage floor, by which the temperature was at all 

 seasons kept nearly uniform. This is not at all necessary 

 in the greater part of England., unless in winter for ex- 

 ceptionally delicate breeds, like Spanish, whose combs and 

 faces are apt to shrivel with frosty weather. 



The characteristic and most valuable principle of this 

 arrangement, is the passage or corridor at the back of a 

 whole range of houses, from which, under cover, eggs can 

 be reached, the houses cleaned, and the birds inspected. It 

 also provides the freest access of air without draught or 

 exposure. In this instance we have seen it applied to quite 

 small pens, for breeds adapted to very close confinement 

 the runs being so narrow (7^ feet wide) that the covered 

 sheds are arranged in front, and not at the sides of the 

 houses. We will only give one more example, of the same 

 system, as we applied it to a house and runs for our own use 

 when breeding Brahmas at Crouch End, London. This 

 plan also, since we first published it in 1872, has been 

 extensively used all over the world ; in fact one or the other 

 of these " corridor " plans are most used of any, with such 

 slight modifications as circumstances dictate, wherever 

 ranges of buildings are erected. 



In the actual case here figured (Fig. 8), the building 

 covered 75 x 15 feet, the pitch roof being covered with 

 loose or open tiles, and the corridor lighted by a few glass 

 tiles interspersed where necessary.* This passage, P, was 

 3 feet wide, and ran the whole length from a door in the 

 end. Each grass-run in this case, being intended for five or 



* It may be worth remarking, that we got the framework put up and 

 tiles put on by contract, in order to have a roof to work under ; but after 

 that, all the timber and wire-work of houses, sheds, and fencing of runs 

 was made and put up by our own hands. 



