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other fills hopper with feed, and it was found by actual count that 

 this could be done in less than hour's time per day when about 

 twenty-five hundred chickens were being fed. This wagon was 

 changed over by putting on high sides for carrying litter so that the 

 houses could be cleaned once a week and the cleanings scattered on 

 the fields long distances away and loose straw put in the houses. 



(Fig. 27.) The same wagon as shown in figure 26, with the body 

 for cleaning houses. 



Figure 28 is a very desirable cockerel house. It is a very im- 

 portant feature in rearing chickens to separate males from females 



Figure 28. 



soon after the sexes can be distinguished, and it is desirable, there- 

 fore, to place the males on a different part of the farm. This lean- 

 to house was built on the north side of an ice house with runway. It 

 is built of wire on all sides. The interior is covered with perches. 

 We put into this a large flock of two or three hundred cockerels. We 

 call it "bachelor's hall." 





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