COMMON SENSE POULTRY HOUSES 



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upper and lower story. Each pen contains ten females and one 

 male for breeding purposes. 



The ground floor is covered with sand to the deptfi of six inches; 

 this is raked off clean every week and the sand renewed entirely 

 when necessary. A board ladder gives the fowls access to the 



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second floor, which is two feet above the sand level. On the 

 second floor is located the scratching pens a space 5 x 5 feet, par- 

 titioned off next to the open front. A board eight inches high at 

 the back keeps the straw in place. The remaining three by five feet 

 is divided into nest boxes and a broody coop, over which extends a 

 dropping board, with roosts above. 



The front of the house from eaves to ground level is five feet ; 

 the rear of house, five feet six inches, thus giving the fowls plenty 

 of head room over the roosts. Everything on this floor, roosts, 

 dropping board, nests, broody coop, etc., is movable and can be 

 taken out, and the house thoroughly cleaned and disinfected when 

 necessary. 



Another two-story coop has been named by the inventor, Mrs. 

 A. J. Badger, the "Twentieth Century Coop." It makes intensive 

 poultry culture appeal to those cramped for room. 



The "Twentieth Century Coop," designed by Mrs. A. J. Badger, 

 is also a two-story coop, intended to house from twelve to fifteen 

 adult fowls, enclosed all the time, and to supply sanitary quarters 



