PROFITABLE EGG FARMING. 
Brooder House and Yards, Lakewood Farm. 
calls from the numerous hotels in Lakewood 
and other cities receive attention as the supply 
of eggs permits. As Mr. Brown expresses it, 
there is no trouble whatever in finding a market, 
the only difficulty is to get eggs enough to supply 
the demand already in sight! 
This farm embodies both the colony-house 
plan and the continuous-house plan. Across 
the road from the dwelling is a group of twelve 
colony houses, set about 150 feet apart, in which 
were some 600 head of White Leghorns ranging 
at will over the adjoining territory; a 6-foot 
woven wire fence encloses the whole tract and 
serves to confine the roaming birds, and also 
protects them against the depredations of four- 
footed enemies. Those colony houses are differ¬ 
ent from most, in that they are set up from the 
ground about three feet, the space beneath 
being an open-front scratching shed. The 
roosting apartment above is 8 x 12 feet in size, 
has two half-sash windows in the 
front, and furnishes a comfortable 
home for fifty birds, with the scratch- 
ing-shed basement and the liberty to 
range outside. An objection to the 
low, basement-scratching-shed would 
be that the birds would lay some eggs 
in there, and it would be vexatious to 
creep into such # low space to secure 
the eggs; Mr. Brown said that they 
had not found this a serious objection, 
but as they had banks of nests in the 
open basement as well as in the roost¬ 
ing room above, almost all of the eggs 
were gathered from the nests. Other 
colony houses are scattered through 
the woods east of the farm buildings, 
and these were used for carrying the 
surplus males and surplus stock general¬ 
ly through the winter, and in sum¬ 
mer the birds selected for future breed¬ 
ers will be colonized in them while 
the yards of the regular breeding houses 
are being seeded down. Four long 
houses, each 128 x 16 feet, were occu¬ 
pied by laying-breeding stock, and 
others were being built at the time 
of oui visit. These long houses are 
