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in connection with the poultry houses. It is necessary of course 

 to make a building as permanent and substantial as the local 

 conditions demand, yet buildings of this nature need not be 

 elaborate in construction or of expensive materials. Except, 

 perhaps, in special cases, the cost of the house should not ex- 

 ceed one dollar and a quarter for each fowl that it will accom- 

 modate when complete. This is not given as a rule, but to in- 

 dicate what we should expect in this regard. To illustrate fur- 

 ther, the total cost of the colony house shown in Figures 3 and 

 4 including material and labor should not exceed thirty dollars, 

 and it will accommodate under usual conditions about fifty 

 hens of the smaller and forty of the larger breeds, making a 

 cost in the one case of sixty cents per hen, and in the other 

 seventy-five cents per hen. 



By following the ideas suggested above, a number of houses 

 could be planned that would no doubt be entirely satisfactory. 

 On the following pages are given detailed plans, slightly mod- 

 ified, of three houses that have been tried at the Utah Experi- 

 ment Station and different parts of the State, and proved to 

 be eminently satisfactory. 



It is not necessary in any case to follow strictly all the 

 details given in all respects. An attempt has been made to 

 furnish these definite instructions and details of plan to those 

 who are looking for just such specific information. A general 

 discussion of the construction and a bill of the material re- 

 quired is given for each of the different plans. 



The Utah Station Colony House. 



This house has been used for several years at the Utah 

 Station poultry yards, also at two or three other places in the 

 State, and is found to be very satisfactory for Utah conditions. 

 Because of the small size and substantial construction it can be 

 readily moved about from place to place on the 4 by 4 skids, 

 which also serve as a foundation for the house. This house will 

 accommodate from 40 to 50 hens, and is highly recommended 

 for use where flocks of two to three hundred or less are kept 

 on the farm, or for a special breeding or brooding house on 

 large poultry farms. The front should be left entirely open as 

 shown, with no curtain of any kind, except in some of the higher 

 valleys of the State, where it may be advisable during the 



