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mended by Director Quisenberry. It will hold from 

 fifty to sixty hens. If more than this number are 

 to be kept, it should be built 14 x 28 feet, and divided 

 into two sections of 14 x 14 feet each. Such a house 

 with two yards, each containing an acre of land, 

 which can be cultivated in turn, will be found a most 

 satisfactory home for the farm flock of 100 hens 

 or for the suburban place of several acres where 

 two acres can be devoted to poultry. If the two 

 acres of land is planted to fruit trees it will yield 

 an additional income. 



A MODEL CALIFORNIA HOUSE 



Housing in California is not essentially different 

 from housing in the East. In two particulars, how- 

 ever, slight allowance must be made for California 



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FIG. 16 HOUSING AND YARDING 



climate. The open front house is in quite general 

 use East and West, but in the East provision must 

 be made for shutting out the winter storms. This 

 is not necessary in most portions of California, but 

 on the other hand our sunny climate necessitates 

 more generous provision for shade. 



A long house which is admirably adapted to Cali- 

 fornia climate was built by the late S. C. Gregg on 

 what is now the ranch of Sinclair Brothers at Ar- 



