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THE FABM. 



■wasted, as it all cuts out clean; there is also a groat saving of labor. The 

 foundation of the building rests on cedar posts set four feet into the ground. 



This house contains eight pens, each one of which wUl accommodate from 

 twenty-five to thirty fowls; each pen is nine feet long and eight feet wide. 

 All the pens are divided oif by ynxe partitions of one inch mesh. Each pen 

 has a glass window on the southern front of the house, extending from the 

 gutter to Avithin one foot of the apex of the roof, fixed iu permanently with 

 French glass lapping over each other, after the fashion of hot-bed sashes; 

 they are about eleven by three feet. Each pen is entered by a wire door six 

 feet high, from the hallway, which is three feet wide; and these doors are 

 carefully fastened with a brass padlock. 



The house is put together with matched boards, and the grooves of the 

 boards are filled in with white lead and then driven together, so as to make 

 the joints impervious to cold or wet. On the rear side of the house there are 



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Ibnr scuttles or ventilators, two by two feet, placed equidistant from eack 

 other, and to these are attached iron rods which fit into a sUde with a screw, 

 so that they can be raised to any height. These are raised, according to the 

 weather, every morning, to let off the foul air. Each pen has a ventilator 

 beside* the trap door at the bottom, same size, which communicates with the 

 pens and nms. These lower ventilators are used only in very hot weather, 

 to allow a free circulation through the building, and iu summer each pen is 

 shaded from the extreme rays of the sun by thick shades fastened upon the 

 inside, so that the inside of the house is cooler than the outside. 



The dropping boards extend the whole width of the pen, and are about 

 two feet wide and sixteen inches from the floor; the roosts are about seven 

 inches above and over this board. They are three inches wide and crescent- 

 enaped on top, so that the fowls can rest a considerable portion of their 

 bodies on the perches. Under these dropping boards are the nest boxes, 

 where the fowls lay, and are shaded and secluded. The feeding and drink* 



