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A Typical Laying House Pound by A. C. Smitii on his Visit to a Rhode 

 Island Egg Farm. 



Leghorns to produce a variety of the same characteristics 

 as the Rhode Island Reds possess. However, the whole 

 matter seems to be problematical and we must take these 

 farms as we find them with the established Rhode Island 

 Reds — good layers and fairly good market fowls. 



While the great majority of these farms breed Rhode 

 Island Reds exclusively, yet there are exceptions. The 

 Light Brahmas are the second favorites. We also find 

 White Wyandottes and particularly do we find Pekin Ducks 

 and Embden Geese. 



The Houses are Cheap. 



As stated, these are not built for ornamentation. They 

 are not built by men who have burdensome incomes to- 

 reduce. They are built by men inculcated with the save- 

 the-coppers spirit, and look it. All are of much the same 

 general plan, built of rough, square edged hemlock boards, 

 both roof and walls. They are about all of the pitch roof 

 style and while they vary in length are in almost every 

 instance ten feet wide. Some are ten feet long, more are 

 twelve or fifteen, and many are twenty. A great deal 

 of ingenuity is displayed in the minor details of fittings. 

 The roofs are in some cases covered with waterproof paper, 

 but in niost instances they are not. The hemlock boards 

 are laid oip and down close together, and battened, some- 

 times with lath, sometimes with wider stuff, and again, 

 with other boards, in which case the course underneath 

 is not laid very dose together. There is always one win- 



