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it can be moved about with a team of horses. In the summer these 

 houses must be used for the growing stock, but in the winter they will 

 house a small flock of layers and thus be profitable the year around. 



End view. 



The other houses can be built from piano boxes and other dry goods 

 boxes, but since such boxes cannot be purchased at all times, I will 

 not figure on them very much. When the plant is completed it should 

 have at least ten of these colony houses on it at an estimate cost of 

 $50.00 each. 



Floor plan of a colony house. 



METHOD OF SPROUTING OATS. 



Along with other feeds I always supply some kind of green 

 food. There are many things that can be used, but I like to feed 

 sprouted oats better than anything else. This is prepared by soaking 

 oats in a tub of warm water for twenty-four hours and then putting 

 them in small wooden trays to sprout. They are then sprinkled every 



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