68 METHODS OF POULTRY MANAGEMENT. 



In the front of eacli section is a door 2 feet 6 inches wide. 

 The roost platform is at the back of each room and extends the 

 whole 20 feet. The platform is 3 feet 6 inches wide and 3 feet 

 above the floor. The roosts are of 2 by 3 inch stufif placed on 

 edge and are 10 inches above the platform. The back one is 11 

 inches out from the wall, and the space between the two roosts 

 is 16 inches, leaving 15 inches between the front roost and the 

 front of the platform. 



Six trap nests are placed at each end of each room. They 

 are put near the front so that the light may be good for reading 

 and recording the numbers on the leg bands of the birds. 

 Several shelves are put on the walls 18 inches above the floor 

 for shell, grit, bone, etc. The doors which open from one room 

 to another throughout the building are frames covered with 10- 

 ounce duck, so as to make them light, and are hung with double- 

 action spring hinges. The advantages of having all doors push 

 from the person passing through are very great; otherwise 

 they would hinder the passage of the attendant with his baskets 

 and pails. Strips of old rubber belting are nailed around the 

 studs which the doors rub against as they swing to, so as just 

 to catch and hold them from being opened by the wind. Tight 

 board partitions are used between the pens instead of wire, so 

 as to prevent drafts. An outside platform 4 feet wide extends 

 along the entire front of the building. 



This house accommodates 350 hens — 50 in each 20-foot sec- 

 tion — is well made of good material, and should prove to be 

 durable. A rougher building, with plain instead of trap nests, 

 and with the roof and walls covered with some of the prepared 

 materials instead of shingles, could be built for less money, and 

 would probably furnish as comfortable quarters for the birds. 



Curtain front house No. 3 was constructed in 1904. It is 16 

 ft. wide by 120 ft. long and is of the same style as No. 2 except 

 that it is wider. There are four pens in the building, each 16 

 ft. wide by 30 ft. long. The pens are arranged to hold from 125 

 to 150 hens each, depending on the exigences of the experi- 

 mental work. One hundred and fifty birds per pen do very 

 well in these pens. Unless there is special reason for it, it is 

 usually preferred to put but 125 birds in each pen. The inter- 

 rior of one pen in this house is shown in Fig. 16. 



