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Building paper is much used for covering roofs and 

 sides of poultry structures. Some kinds require fre- 

 quent coating with tar paint. 



<?lass windows are mainly employed for lighting, but 

 expense may often be reduced by using cotton cloth or 

 wire netting as substitutes. 



Iron hinges, latches, springs, catches, locks, screws 

 and nails have their places in construction. 



Concrete (hydraulic cement, sand, and water mixed 

 to a mortar) is often used for making floors and may 

 replace brick, stone or timber in building other parts of 

 the houses. 



Straw thatch makes a very comfortable house for 

 fowls, being warm in winter, cool in summer, self venti- 

 lating, economical and capable of being made attractive 

 in appearance. 



Adobe and turf hen-houses are built in some locali- 

 ties and answer the purpose. 



In sections where straw is abundant and cheap it may 

 b*> used to thickly cover the back, ends and roof of a 

 framework made of poles which has a front of wire net- 

 ting, cotton cloth or boarding and glass windows. 



SCRATCHING SHED HOUSE. 



Size ten feet by eighteen feet; front wall seven and 

 one-half feet; rear wall four and one-half feet. Mater- 

 ial frame two by four inch siding, matched lumber, 

 battened or covered with roofing paper. 



Roosting room to be floored with boards or cement. 

 Scratching shed has a dirt floor. 



Roosting room to be ceiled up behind and above 

 roosts. Cloth covered frame to be hinged above roosts 

 and swing down in front of them for use on very cold 

 nights. 



Cloth covered opening may be left above window 

 for ventilation, or if preferred this cloth can be placed 

 in partition between roosting room and scratching shed. 

 Door may be placed in same partition if desired. 



Front of scratching shed is boarded up eighteen 



