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to the rear end of the roof both on the roosting house 

 and the runways. Heavy barbed wire stretched between 

 these posts prevents approach from the rear. 



The arrangement of house and yards shown in Fig. 4 

 was evolved in England to meet the food-shortage emer- 

 gency. The house in the rear is an open-front, scratch- 

 ing-shed house, in which the poultry can be confined in 

 all kinds of weather, especially when it rains and the 

 ground is wet outside. The interior of the house can 

 be arranged to suit the convenience of the owner. The 



FIG. 4 



roosts should be placed to the extreme right of the 

 house and the nests to the left of the roosts, to make 

 it convenient for those who go into the house through 

 the door in the center to gather the eggs and to clean 

 up without disturbing the poultry. The vegetable garden 

 and poultry yard are alternated yearly. To make the 

 change, the front fence and the line of fencing along the 

 pathway should be moved over to enclose the garden 

 patch for a poultry yard, the other side then being used 

 as a garden plot. When this change is made, the front 

 sections at the extreme right and left are changed so 



