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economical of labor as the long house which has long 

 been characteristic of the intensive plant. It takes 

 longer to go from yard to yard on the colony sys- 

 tem than from pen to pen of a long house, but this 

 objection can be obviated by placing the houses 

 along an alley, with the front of each to the alley. 



THE LONG HOUSE 



More birds can be kept at less expense for 

 labor and housing in a long house than in any other 

 way. When several hundred birds are kept in one 

 long house, it is generally thought wise not to put 

 more than fifty together in one apartment, though 

 some poultrymen find that they can keep 100 to 

 advantage. Where 100 birds are kept in one flock 

 instead of in two, each bird has twice as much floor 

 space to move about in as if the pens were half as 

 large. Fifty birds, for instance, would require 200 

 square feet of house room if kept by themselves, and 

 each bird would have but the 200 feet to move about 

 in. Put the 100 birds in 400 square feet of floor 

 space, and each bird has 400 feet. 



A good plan for a long house is twenty feet wide 

 and 100 feet long, eight feet high in front and five 

 feet high in the rear, and is divided by sixteen-foot 

 partitions into five sections. The partitions do not 

 entirely separate the sections, an alley four feet 

 wide being left the whole length of the front of the 

 building, so that every fowl may roam over the whole 

 2000 feet. Each section contains roosting and 

 scratching room for 100 Rocks or 120 Leghorns, so 

 the entire house will house 500 Rocks or 600 Leg- 

 horns. This house is recommended by Director 

 Quisenberry of the Missouri Experiment Station, 

 and is similar to many in use in this state. 



A laying house designed for 1000 hens is twenty 



