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successfully built without partitions, in other words, 

 one large flock with the run of the entire house. 

 Others had tried it, and had failed. They had had 

 draughts, and had found the house, therefore, very 

 undesirable. We conceived the idea of roosting 

 closets, with a partition extending some little distance 

 beyond the dropping boards, running from the ceil- 

 ing to the floor, thus breaking the house up so far as 

 extended circulation of air went, and at the same 

 time giving the birds the benefit of the larger area. 



It was also a matter of great interest to two 

 novices to watch the tgg output in this first house. 

 On the first day of November five eggs were gath- 

 ered; on the second, seven; the third saw a drop to 

 four. Of course these pullets had been giving us 

 more eggs than this on the Range, but a transfer from 

 one place to another always means a set-back to a 

 layer. 



The middle of the month saw the hens producing 

 above seventeen eggs a day. December was started 

 with an output of forty, and from that the birds ran 

 into larger numbers daily until the last of December, 

 when, with the mercury registering well down 

 around zero, they were turning out one hundred eggs 

 a day. The increase in the egg output continued 

 steadily, and we found that March was the record 

 month, but the highest single day was in April, when 

 the pen produced one hundred and seventy eggs. 



