A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



walls and ceiling of the chicken-house, makes 

 it wholesomely clean. When this is done, 

 have a platform three feet wide run across 

 the back, or end, of the house, two feet from 

 the floor. 



Get hardwood slats four inches wide by 

 two inches thick; from these construct a 

 frame eighteen inches wide and six inches 

 shorter than the length of the platform. At 

 each corner of this frame put a nine-inch 

 leg. This frame, when stood upon the plat- 

 form, makes two roosts which, being on the 

 same level, prevent the birds fighting and 

 crowding upon one another, as they always 

 do when the roosts slant, each bird desiring 

 to be on the top rung. 



If the house is to accommodate twelve 

 hens, provide six nests a foot square, made in 

 groups of three, with legs a foot high; they 

 are easily handled and removed for house- 

 cleaning. Stand them in the darkest and 

 most secluded part of the house. Put a 

 handful of hay and a china nest-egg in 



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