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On passing all these we will enter into the breeding pens and say 

 a little about them. In every other pen is a hydrant, by which two 

 pens are supplied by just simply opening the door between and filling 

 the pans. This may seem an expensive idea, but on the other hand, 

 when you stop to figure how much time each day is taken up in 

 watering from thirty birds in this house to sixty birds in the laying 

 house, to the pen, with all the rest of the farm work to do, you will 

 stop and give it consideration, especially in summer. 



Feed room. 



In each pen is a mash hopper (home made), a box of grit, shell 

 and charcoal, with a loose piece of inch-mesh wire to prevent the 

 waste by scratching out of the box, and a dust box, which is of vast 

 importance in egg production. The floors are heavily littered with 

 a mixture of millet and oat straw or clover hay, but most always the 

 oat or wheat straw is used pure, as the horse and cow will need most 

 of the hay products. (The grit, shell and charcoal are mixed equal 

 parts by measure.) 



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A section of a long laying house, ground plan. 



