CHAPTER XXVII 



Construction of Laying, Breeding, and Breeding 

 Cockerel Houses 



The Breeding and Laying Houses, on The Corning 

 Egg Farm, are all built in the manner described in the 

 remainder of this chapter, and are each i6o feet long. 

 The Breeding Cockerel House is 60 feet in length. 

 These Houses are all fifteen feet, nine inches, in width, 

 the drawing in of them being three inches for the pur- 

 pose of making the roof rafters, which are sixteen feet 

 in length, readily reach out to the end of the plates, 

 on the slant which they carry. The height of the 

 buildings from the ground, over all, is twelve feet, two 

 inches at the back and fourteen feet, two inches in 

 front. 



The interior of these buildings is divided into 

 20 foot sections, by partitions extending out from the 

 north wall of the buildings, seven feet, and forming 

 the roosting closets. These partitions run from the 

 floor clear to the ceiling, breaking the draughts, which 

 but for them, would make the long Laying Houses ut- 

 terly impracticable. 



• The north wall of the Laying House is five feet high 

 in the clear, the south wall being seven feet. This 



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