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Roof, dropping boards, walls, and nests, 2,300 sq. ft., eight- 

 inch tongued and grooved yellow pine 



Curtain frames and trim, 200 linear feet white pine, 1* x 2" 



Nests, 100 linear feet white pine, 1* x 4" 



Broody coop, one bundle plaster lath 



Nails, 10 Ibs. 20-penny wire, 50 Ibs. 10-penny wire, 20 Ibs. 

 8-penny wire 



Approximate cost of the above $75.54 



Roofing paper, 1,000 sq. ft., or 11 rolls at $3.00 33.00 



Four special sashes, 3" x 5" ft, at $2.00 8.00 



Muslin, 8 sq. yards at 20c. per yard 1.60 



Hardware, such as hinges, locks, hooks and wire 4.75 



Foundation and floor: 



Cement, 35 bags at 50c. each 17.50 



Cinders or gravel, 30 yards at $1.00 30.00 



Sand, 5 cubic yards 7.50 



Total cost $177.89 



Such a house is very economical when a poultryman wishes 

 to keep only 100 birds, but intends to enlarge his plant in 



FIG. 117. A long laying house, especially adapted to the large commercial flock for 

 egg production or for many small flocks for breeding. 



the future, the time elapsing before he does so depending, 

 of course, on the success of his enterprise. 



Long Breeding House. Many poultrymen think it a 

 good plan to have special breeding pens, each accommodating 

 from twelve to fifty birds. These are best taken care of by 

 building a long laying house. Figure 117 shows a common 

 type used for breeding flocks. Here we have a house of 

 the shed roof type, 16 feet wide and 144 feet long, divided 

 into twelve pens, each pen being twelve by sixteen feet. 

 On account of the slope of the ground the house drops ten 



