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CONSTRUCTION OF BREEDING HOUSE. 



This house is to be built exactly as the laying house, except that it 

 is thirty feet in length instead of one hundred feet, and to have two 

 window openings instead of five, as in the laying houses. 



CONSTRUCTION OF COLONY HOUSES. 



The colony house is six feet in front and four feet high in rear. 

 In the front of the house are two small doors for chickens, also one 

 window 2x4 feet. This window opening is covered with wire netting 

 and has a cloth curtain to be lowered during bad weather. 



The door for the attendant is at the end, and during warm weather 

 is to be replaced with a frame door covered with wire netting, to 

 make house cooler. 



The small doors in the front are made to hook on the inside and 

 the large door to be locked by attendant on his last trip at night. 

 The house is to be built with floor and on skids, so that it can be 

 easily moved from place to place. 



I would have a solid board partition two feet high and six feet 

 long with hooks on each end that would fasten to the front and back 

 walls of the house, dividing the interior into two parts, each four feet 

 by six feet. This could be easily stepped over by attendant and would 

 be used when chicks were first placed in colony houses. A brooder 

 and its flock could be placed on each side and the temporary yard 

 divided through the center would be arranged on outside of house. 

 This yard would be made by taking two feet small mesh wire netting 

 and weaving small iron rods through it every three feet and pushing 

 sharpened ends of rods into the ground as temporary posts. 



As soon as chicks were accustomed to new quarters, remove par- 

 tition and temporary wire fence. There are no roosts in colony house. 

 Would need ten colony houses on plant of this size. 



CONSTRUCTION OF FEED HOUSE. 



The feed house to be 12x20 feet, pitch roof and cellar. Places 

 marked A and B to be bins for wheat and corn. Place marked C 



C f t# ' c. f * o I F j h/ 



2.0 ft 



to be bench three feet wide with bins underneath for oyster shell, 

 charcoal, oil meal, etc. The bench is divided into several pieces, so 



