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wire netting should be nailed across under the roofing. The main 
posts are 2x2% inches, with smaller posts at intervals. 2x I )-z inches. 
These should be well tarred, and driven into the ground 18 inches. 
The sides and fnrnt -are of I -inch weather-boarding. Small windows, 
each pane 9x1 inch and of 15-ounce glass, are placed for light, and are 
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made to open. In the right-hand place, where the only door is at one 
extreme end, there are iour openings. These are usually taken by the 
four “cocks of the walk," thus leaving the doorway free for the admis- 
sion and exit of the smaller fry. The doors are made of I -inch grooved- 
and-tongued red boarding, size 2x4 feet, and at least one foot from the 
ground level. This prevents the entrance of vermin, and also of wet. 
The floors of the inner places are of concrete two inches thick, 
placed on six inches of rubble, in the proportion of one of cement to four 
of sand; six inches under the cement, in inner places, half-inch mesh- 
