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Height of house in front, eight feet. 



Height of house in rear, five feet. 



Door in each end. 



Five windows in front. 



Each window 4x10 feet. 



These houses face the south and are on posts four feet above the 

 ground. The posts are boarded on the north side and east and west 

 ends. 



All walls of this house to be built solid, with exception of doors 

 in each end and window openings in front side. These openings to be 

 covered with inch-mesh wire netting and to have cloth curtains on 

 frames inside to be lowered in bad weather. The dropping board ex- 

 tends entire length of north Avail, being three feet from the floor and 

 having four rows of perches above it. The dropping board is divided 

 every twenty feet by solid partitions to prevent drafts. 



The rows of trap nests are placed on south side under windows. 

 One row is placed on top of the other. Allowing for divisions be- 

 tween nests, there would be about ninety nests in a row, making one 

 hundred and eighty nests to each house. All nests, perches and par- 

 titions are removable. House to have dirt floor, covered with gravel 

 and kept covered all the time with litter to depth of four to six inches. 

 Hens to be fed morning grain in litter. Self -feeders, containing char- 

 coal, grit, oyster shell, dry mash, etc., to be placed on partition walls 

 between pens. 



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