A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



ing pans three times a day with water from 

 which the chill has been removed; leave 

 fifteen minutes, and empty. Keep up the 

 supply of crushed bone and lean meat and 

 some sort of green food; then there will be 

 more fertile eggs and stronger chicks. 



Our first February on the farm was one 

 continuous snow-storm, rendering out-of-door 

 work impossible. So, realizing that even with 

 our incubator and brooders at work, some 

 families would have to be reared under hens, 

 leisure daylight hours were occupied in build- 

 ing coops, the dimensions of which were : - 



Two feet wide, two and a half deep, two 

 feet high in front, and one and a half in back, 

 roof to extend three inches beyond the sides 

 all around. The floor fits inside and has 

 two cleats of four by four, nailed on three 

 inches from the back and front, and extend- 

 ing an inch and a half out each side. The 

 sides of the top, too, have corresponding 

 pieces cut out, so that the coop fits down 

 over the edge of the floor on to the cleats. 



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