THE BUILDING OF THE FARM 27 



on the same twenty foot section construction which 

 has proved to be so successful a plan for poultry 

 houses. The one mistake in this house was its width, 

 and that has now been remedied by widening it to the 

 standard, sixteen feet in width, and sixty feet in 

 length have been added to it. 



The youngsters on range grew rapidly. We mar- 

 keted the cockerels at between eight and ten weeks 

 of age, and they weighed from one and a quarter 

 pounds to a pound and three quarters. These were 

 sold " on the hoof," as we had decided for the future 

 to do nothing in the slaughter house line, and to this 

 decision we have strictly adhered, shipping alive also 

 all culls and birds of any age showing imperfections, 

 the majority of our stock finding ready market for 

 breeding purposes when we are ready to dispose of it. 



As a correct record of the mortality of our hatch- 

 ing, and the number of cockerels marketed, had been 

 kept, we found that we should have in the Colony 

 Houses about two hundred and twenty-five pullets to 

 place in No. i House. 



In catching up the birds we found that the number 

 figured on was about right. These two hundred and 

 twenty-five birds went into the House, October 31st. 

 They were already laying on the Range. 



First Use of Roosting Closets 



It was a very interesting sight to us to watch these 

 birds at work in the first house which had ever been 



