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METHODS OF POULTRY MANAGEMENT. 



15 inches apart (i. e., vertically). There can be accommodated 

 four rows of flats, three in a row, in the closet at one time. 

 A number of holes are bored in the bottom of each one of the 

 flats in order to drain off the surface moisture which comes with 

 the wetting of the oats. 



B 

 FIG. 14. A, empty flat. B, started to sprout. 



The arrangement of the sprouting closet and the flats is 

 shown in Figs. 13 and 14. 



The advantage of the closet arrangement described is that it 

 enables one to control the three necessary factors of heat, mois- 



