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cleanings are dumped into the manure shed. As the car is 

 pushed along, the guard at the front end comes in contact with 

 the doors and pushes them open and they remain so until the 

 car has passed through, when the spring hinges force them to 

 close again. This car is a great labor saver as it does away with 

 nearly all lugging by the workmen. It has enabled one man to 

 take good care of the 2,000 hens from November to March, 

 except on Saturdays, when the litter has been removed and 

 renewed by other men. 



At one end of the building there is a temporary food and 

 water house for dish washing and scalding and where the car 

 remains when not being used. 



There is a walk outside of the building extending along its 

 entire front. It is 4 feet wide and is made of 2 inch plank ; it 

 is elevated 2 feet above the floor of the building, which allows 

 the doors, through which the birds pass to the front yards, to 

 be opened and closed without interference. The door which 

 opens out of each room through the curtain section, is above the 

 outside walk and necessitates stepping up or down when passing 

 through, which is not a very serious objection, as the door is 

 used but little in the daily work, but mostly in cleaning out and 

 renewing the floor litter. A guard of wire poultry netting, a 

 foot wide along the outside of the walk, prevents the birds from 

 flying from the yards up to the walk. The advantages of the 

 elevated walk, over one on a level with the sill of the building is 

 that it is unobstructed by gates, which would be necessary were 

 the low walk used, to prevent the birds from passing from one 

 yard to another. 



The yards conform in width to the 20 foot sections of the 

 house and are 100 feet deep. The fence is 5 feet high and is 

 made from 2 strips of 2 inch mesh No. 19 poultry netting. By 

 using 2 strips of 30 inch width, instead of one strip of double 

 that width, 2 strong lines of wire are brought in the middle and 

 the liability of bagging is much lessened, while the -cost is not 

 increased. 



To give free passage for teams, to near the door of the build- 

 ing, openings 12 feet wide are left in the yard fences. They 

 are 15 feet away from the front of the building, so that the road 

 may not be obstructed by the snow which is liable to accumulate 

 near the building. The frame fence sections, which fill in the 

 openings during the summer, are quickly taken out and replaced 

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