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the double walls at the back. This is a good arrangement, 

 as it cools the house off during hot summer nights. A door 

 two feet wide and six feet high is cut in one side near the 

 front. The top of the door follows the slant of the roof, 

 thus giving a few inches in height. The frame of the house 

 is built of yellow pine and hemlock, the floor of pine boards, 

 and the walls of eight-inch tongued and grooved yellow or 



FIG. 95. The small-flock poultry house as it will appear when finally completed. 



white pine, the boards being laid up and down. The roof 

 is made of shiplap, and ten-inch yellow pine boards, covered 

 with a good grade of roofing paper. The interior fixtures 

 consist of four nests placed on the side wall opposite the door, 

 and a hopper hung on the other side of the wall near the 

 door. The roost and nests are built in the back and lowest 

 part of the house. The dust box is located in the center 



