266 POULTRY BREEDING 
house of this kind in which the partition was made en- 
tirely of wire nailed to 2’x4” studding set so the wire 
was nailed to the narrow edge. For two feet from the 
floor netting was nailed on both edges of the studding, 
making two netting partitions to that height 4” apart. It 
was impossible for cocks to fight through this double 
partition, as they could not reach each other. This house 
is a model used in’ many places in the colder parts, as 
fowls can be allowed to run in the open front scratching 
room when the weather is quite cold. It makes an ex- 
cellent house for suburban poultry yards and for places 
where no inclosed yards are used, as the fowls can be 
shut in the house, taking exercise in the scratching shed. 
The windows in the rooms are 6’ wide and 4’ from top 
to bottom. The burlap curtain is used to drop down be- 
fore the dropping board, as 1s the Minnesota house, il- 
lustrated on page 263. 
On the next page are given diagrams of a plan for a 
house with an alleyway. The house is 6’ high at the 
plate in front and the peak of the roof is 3’ from the north 
side. The water vessels in this house are let into the 
partition under the dropping boards, so that they can be 
filled from the alleyway. Many houses of this style have 
the nest boxes also under the dropping boards, while 
some have arrangements for feeding mash in troughs 
under the dropping boards. The windows are 4’x5’ and 
are made of muslin or have glass in them to suit the 
fancy of the owner, muslin being preferable. The muslin 
is stretched on frames hinged at the top so as to swing 
in. Access to the yards, if there are vards attached. is 
gained through gates’set in the dividing fences next the 
house. This is a costly house to build, as it takes more 
lumber and labor to build it than are required for the 
