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MRS. BASLEY'S WESTERN POULTRY BOOK 



on a large poultry ranch in California. The house is eight by ten 

 feet and two feet to the eaves; all the framework, including the 

 runners, is of two by three-inch stuff, and the walls and ends are 

 of one by twelve-inch boards, shiplapped so as to avoid using bat- 



Biddy's Bed-Room 



tens. The rafters are five feet four inches long, and three pairs 

 are used ; a one by six inch strip is run all around the outside of the 

 roof to form the eaves and also to make it tight ; eight pieces of 

 one by four are used for sheathing, and the sawed shakes are close 

 so that there is no draught from that source ; the only opening is 

 from the front, which is open at all times. The houses do not 

 require cleaning, for they are on runners, and are slid along about 

 fifteen feet each time. Thus they are on fresh ground and much 

 cleaner than one could do it in any other manner. 



The Two-Story House 



Among the hen houses, or chicken coops, as some -people prefer 

 to call them, that are being used very satisfactorily west of the 

 Rockies, must be mentioned the two-story houses. There are 

 especially adapted to the "intensive" method of poultry culture, and 

 for limited space. 



Two-story breeding houses are being used by the immense 

 broiler plant near Inglewood, of the Pacific Poultry Co. The 

 houses are 500 feet long and only eight feet wide, and have no 

 outside runs. It is a close-housing proposition, that is, the fowls 

 are never allowed outside their quarters. The houses are parti- 

 tioned off into pens every five feet, and these are divided into an 



