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. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable ... Poultry; Eggs Production. EGGS AND EGG FARMS are located in the end awaj- from the door. In the majority of the houses this briugs the roosts in the west end, although many of the buildings have the roosts in the east end and door in the west front. The fronts of the houses are on the 12-foot south side and contain the windows and door, two 12-light sash being the usual accompaniment for an 8 by 12 building having a double pitch roof. As we said before, the cracks in the sides of the building are not battened, as a rule, and to avoid drafts about the roosts a strip of building paper is tacked on to the inside of the house with lath battens immediately around the roosting quarters. Only one strip about a yard wide is used. Some of the buildings do not even have this protection about the roosts and there are cracks through which one can easily see out- doors. Each house is provided with a small door for the fpwls on the floor level, which is never closed. In addition to this there is the regular sized door of wood and a screen or slat door by which the fowls may be confined when the solid door is open. These are all plainly shown in the illustrations. In addition to this the double pitch houses have a small ven- tilating scuttle or door in the north wall just below the eaves. This is used only in summer time for purposes of better ven-. difficulty about the flocks mixing to any great extent. The pullets or hens invariably return to their own houses to lay and the male birds, there being two or three to ever}' house, seldom go far away from home. It is a peculiar fact that the males are not particularly quarrelsome. So long as the male bird keeps by his own homestead he seldom gets into trouble, but if he visits a neighboring house he is usually so badly whipped for h