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roof are boarded and the walls are covered with Red Rope 

 Neponset, and the roofs with No. 2 Paroid Roofing material. 

 A door 2 feet wide and 6 feet high is placed in the center of the 

 front wall with a window on each side of it. Each window con- 

 tains 6 lights of 10 by 12 glass in one sash. It is hinged at the 

 top and turns out, like an ordinary storm window. It is either 

 closely buttoned down, or held open at different spaces, by hooks 

 of various lengths. The longest opening is a foot, which leaves 

 the window slanting out at an angle sufficient to give plenty of 

 fresh air in warm weather when both windows are open and the 

 houses full of birds. The advantages of hinged, over sliding 

 windows are, that in stormy weather, rains and winds do not 

 beat in to wet or annoy the birds, and free ventilation is not 

 interfered with. The windows are covered with wire netting 

 on the inside. A slide door, a foot square, is made down at the 

 floor, near each end of the front of the building, for the chicks 

 to pass through. A temporary board partition about 15 inches 

 high divides the building crosswise into halves. Two No. 4 

 Peep-O'-Day brooders are used in each of these houses. They 

 are put about 2 inches away from the back wall so as to allow 

 the free passage of air to the intake openings in the sides of the 

 brooders. They set about a foot away from each end of the 

 building, and this space is filled in with an elevated platform 

 and incline, which allows the chicks to go out through the 

 brooder door and down a broad easy grade to the floor. 



The Peep-O' Day brooders are all made alike, with the lamp 

 door at one side and the chick door at the other. They are 

 located so that the lamp doors are towards the middle of the 

 building and about 4 feet from each other, which gives about 2 

 feet between the lamp door and the temporary partition, suffi- 

 cient room in which to attend to the lamps. 



The hinges to the brooder cover are changed, so as to bring 

 them at the back, which allows the cover to turn up against the 

 back wall out of the way. These portable houses are well made, 

 of good material, and if the shoes are kept blocked up from the 

 ground, they should last as long as other farm buildings. 



When they are drawn to the range for the warm season, they 

 are turned back to the south, so that the sun may not shine in 

 to the windows to heat the house and make it uncomfortable for 

 the birds. Facing the north, the houses furnish good cool shelter 

 during the heat of the day. 



