Gleanings in bee culture . started. In Texas, where myfriend Stoddard has hisup-to-date egg-f a r m,the weather is so warm(as it is in my Floridahome) that he declaresno roof is needed overthe roosting-places; andafter having tried thisplan for two wintersthey do seem to doabout as well withoutany shelter. As they,however, seem to j^referto run under shelterwhen we have heavyrains, I think I wouldhave a roof for eachpen that would givecomfortable shelter tofifty laying hens in eachyard. For nests we willhave boxes with a slop-ing roof, or, rather, aa roof—coming insidearound the granary. Frien
Gleanings in bee culture . started. In Texas, where myfriend Stoddard has hisup-to-date egg-f a r m,the weather is so warm(as it is in my Floridahome) that he declaresno roof is needed overthe roosting-places; andafter having tried thisplan for two wintersthey do seem to doabout as well withoutany shelter. As they,however, seem to j^referto run under shelterwhen we have heavyrains, I think I wouldhave a roof for eachpen that would givecomfortable shelter tofifty laying hens in eachyard. For nests we willhave boxes with a slop-ing roof, or, rather, aa roof—coming insidearound the granary. Friend Stoddard hassixteen yards, as I have told you, all run-ning down to one narrow center. With fiftyhens in the yard this would make 800 onthe egg-farm. But one yard would be oc-cupied by the lane running down to thegranary, or at least the lane would take uf)a considerable part of it, and another yardwould probably be saved for sitting hens,and possibly two or more yards for chick-ens of different ages.* This would leave. Fig. 2 shows my modification of Stoddards convergent will observe, however, that I liave only 8 yards instead of 16, and Ihave 4 poultry-houses, each 8x16, divided in the cener by the wire nettingso as to make 8 roosting-places 8 feet square. These roosting-liouses havea shingle roof at present, with doors so arranged that all the poultry canbe securely locked up nights. The granary is so arranged, as you will no-tice, that the feed may be carried from the store-bins to the feed-hopperonly a few feet away; and that is also arranged so that one roof will an-swer for the two yards, and the feed-hopper is located right in the divisionfence so that one hopper feeds two yards; therefore you will observe that 4hoppers answer for 8 yards. In like manner four series of nests answerfor the 8 yards, and also, in ilke manner, 4 feed-hoppers, and 4 watering-dishes, or troughs. I have not thought it worth while to show the watering-arrangement either in
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