52 Poultry Yard. 



or sleet. If the number of the stock be con- 

 siderable, the houses had far better be 

 small and detached, both for health and 

 safety sake, and especially they should be 

 absolutely impenetrable to vermin of every 

 description. Should these houses abut upon 

 a stable, brew-house, or any conductor of 

 warmth, it will be so much the more com- 

 fortable and salutary to the poultry. 



The form and conveniences of the poultry- 

 house are these — the bottom or floor should 

 consist of well-rammed chalk or earth, simi- 

 lar to the court-yard, that its surface being 

 smooth, may present no impediment to being 

 swept perfectly clean. For health's sake, 

 the roof should be lofty ; the perches will 

 be then more out of the reach of vermin, 

 should any accidentally break in : and there 

 ahould only be one long and level range of 

 pfti'ches, because, when these are placed 

 one above another, the fowls dung upon 

 each other : convenient steps driven into the 

 wallif^ will render easy the ascent of the 

 poultry to their perches ; but care must be 

 taken that the mistake be not made of pla- 



