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MAKING POULTRY PAY 



and rest on a stone foundation. The studding is two 

 hy four-inch. The building is boarded, papered and 

 shingled on roof and walls. The rear wall and four 

 feet of the lower part of the rear roof are ceiled on the 

 inside of the studding and plates and packed with 

 hard and dry sawdust. The end walls are packed in 

 the same way. ^he house is divided by close board 

 partitions into seven twenty-foot sections and a ten- 





FIG. 6. CORNELL TWO-PEN HOUSE 



foot section is reserved at one end for a feed room. 

 The feed section has two twelve-light outside windows 

 screwed onto the front. The space between the. win- 

 dows, which is eight feet long and three feet wide 

 down from the plate, is covered during rough winter 

 storms and cold nights by a light frame covered with 

 ten-ounce duck closely tacked on. This door or cur- 

 tain is' hinged at the top and swings in and up to the 

 roof when open. A similar curtain at the rear closes in 



