138 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



a large, square tank, carrying some two hundred gal- 

 lons of water. The faucet for drawing the water is 

 placed on the bottom and center of the rear, the tank 

 being placed on the wagon with a slight incline, and 

 is of inch size so as to facilitate the rapid filling of 

 the drinking fountains, which are placed directly un- 

 derneath it. The front part of the wagon carries the 

 tubs of mash and the grain ration. As the Colony 

 Houses are laid out symmetrically the broad tires of 

 the wagon soon wear smooth roads in front of them, 

 and heavy loads are readily pulled over the Range 

 streets. The Houses are placed from side to side 

 about eighty feet apart. From the front of the Houses 

 on one street to the rear of the House on the next 

 street is about one hundred feet. 



The question of shelter on the Range was quite a 

 problem at first, and to meet it in a measure we set out 

 shelters, which were constructed by stretching roofing 

 over frames about twelve feet square, and set up 

 some two and a half feet on stakes driven into the 

 ground. 



It had been planned to carry the Colony Range in 

 Timothy and Clover, but we lost the catch, and as the 

 ground had been very heavily fertilized with the litter 

 from the Laying Houses, a very rank and luxuriant 

 growth of all kinds of Flora sprang up, and we found 

 that what seemed to us a piece of very hard luck in 

 losing the catch, was really a blessing in disguise, for 

 this rank growth of Flora, even in its first year, was 



