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getlicr in one or two pens, that, even if not of value in strength- 

 ening the building, we would make them for these reasons 

 alone. 



Thus our house contains four distinctly separate rooms, 

 all opened together. Each of these rooms is furnished exactly 

 like its fellows. Fig. G gives an illustration of one of these 

 rooms, with all its furnishings, which includes the best we 



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Fig. 6. — Our ideal poultry room: a, floor; 6, side shelves, 2 feet above floor; 

 c, water pail; d, dry mash box; e, shells; /, nests, on same level as 

 shelves; </, roosting (dropping) boards, 1 foot above shelves and 

 nests; h, roosts, 1 foot above roost boards. 



have been able to discover in many years of practical experi- 

 ence at utility poultry work. We never allow any feed box, 

 w^ater pail or any other utensil on the floor of a hen house; 

 this space is given wholly to the hens for scratching. The 

 feed and drink are kept on the side shelves, and so free from 

 dirt thrown up by scratching. On the same level as these 

 shelves is a row of nests, which are reached by the fowls by 



