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EAISING FOWLS AND EGGS 



are upon a line in front, and are glazed in the manner already 

 indicated in plan, Fig. 1. In this house about fifty hens can 

 be conveniently set at one time — say in the ten apartments 

 five each — who will not interfere with each other if properly 

 cared for daily. During the late fall and winter months this 

 building wiU accommodate, in its ten divisions, over a hundred 

 laying hens comfortably. (Eight sections only are shown.) 



During the early spring an average of a dozen eggs may be 

 placed under your fifty sitters, and, with good luck, five hun- 

 dred chickens may be produced, and this from the earliest 

 broods. These maybe removed in due time to the "open" 

 houses, and another fifty hens may be placed upon the nests 

 vacated by the first ones, who, with proper care, will bring out 

 another five hundred chickens, more or lesS, say in six weeks 

 after the earlier sittings. 



It will be understood that upon the removal of the first 

 broods, the sitting boxes should be nicely cleansed, before the 

 second hens are placed upon the nests. By the time the second 

 broods come off, it wiU be the last of March or the first of 

 April. All the young stock may be safely transferred to the 

 open houses by the beginning of May, where they can thence- 

 forward be fed and cared for as previously directed. 



1. K. FKLCH'S PLAN OF A TWO STORT FOWL-HOUSE, WITH LOW GLAZED PEONT BOOF. 



