5o METHODS 0\- FOUI.TRY MANAGEMIvNT, 



inclining pieces of studding to the rafters, the short pieces of 

 studding being nailed to the studs and rafters. By this arrange- 

 ment there are no slack places around the* plate to admit cold 

 air. The end walls are packed in the same way. The house 

 is divided by close-board partitions into seven 20-foot sec- 

 tions;* one 10- foot section is reserved at the lower end for a 

 feed-storage room. 



Each of the 20- foot sections has two 12-light outsid*. windows 

 screwed to the front, and the space between the windows 

 (which is 8 feet long) for a distance of 3 feet down from the 

 plate is covered during rough winter storms and cold nights 

 by a light frame covered with lo-ounce duck, oiled and closely 

 tacked on. This door, or curtain, is hinged at the top ;: id 

 swings in and up to the roof when open. 



In the front of each section is a door 2 feet 6 incites 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 cne 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 iS 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 to- 

 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 

 alonsf the entire front of the building. 



*The house is now used as a breeding house, and temporary partition; 

 divide each of the 20-foot pens into two lO-foot pens. 



