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suit the width of the wire. I use a small mesh poultry wire and 

 stretch it as tight as I can. If I can not get wire sufficiently 

 wide, I get two pieces, which by splicing will make the proper 

 width and sew them together with baling wire. Any kind of a 

 canvas curtain will do for the front, in case of stormy weather. I 

 have known some to use old carpet and it seemed to do very well. 

 We very seldom have occasion to use the curtain, and our chickens' 

 combs have never frozen, nor do the chickens have colds, and they 

 do not stop laying all through the winter. I use shingles for roof- 

 ing, and put the doors in the ends of the house. I construct the 

 roosts on a level and put them about two feet from the floor. By 

 taking 2x4's and fastening one end to the north wall, and sup- 

 porting the other end by a wire swung from the rafter, I make 

 them level. I then put poles on the 2x4's for roosts. I make my 

 houses low because I think it is warmer in winter time." — E. M, 

 Grimes. 



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A MISSOURI PLYMOUTH ROOK HEN. WINNKR OF FIRST PRIZE AT LOUISIANA 



PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 



"I have been using the open front hen house for the past 

 three years and find it so much better than the closed ones that 

 I wish others to be benefited by my experience. Besides, I am 

 doing the hens a great favor, as they are so much healthier and 

 happier and will lay more eggs. Such a house can also be built 

 cheaper than any other, as it requires no windows, which make a 

 house too warm, and then too cold. Then in the hot summer time 



