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track above the doors. The track extends the entire length 

 of the building and being faced with narrow steel bands on 

 top, a suspended car is readily pushed along, even when 

 heavily loaded. The platform of the car is 2 x 8 feet in size 

 and is elevated a foot above the floor. All food and water is 

 carried through the building on this car. The ten iron 

 baskets, into which the roost platforms are cleaned every 

 morning, are put on the car and collections made as the car 

 passes through the pens to the far end of the building, 400 

 feet away, where the roost cleanings are dumped in 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 workman. 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 ana 

 water house for dish washing and scalding and where the 

 car remains when not being used. 



An Outside, Elevated Walk. 



TJiere 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 out- 

 side 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 jt is 

 unobstructed by gatea^ wl^ich would be necessary were 

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

 one yard to another. 



