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in the house were furnished with fine sand, as a sand-bath, for 

 the poultry, it would conduce to their health and gratification, 

 by ridding them of their accustomed parasites. I do not approve 

 of paved yards for the large fowl, which so frequently brings on 

 them both gout and corns, at a premature age. A shed in the 

 yard, or other shade, is essential to shelter them from rain ; and 

 fine sand, in a poultry- yard, is much preferred to any other walk. 



As I keep all the fine poultry, pheasants, &c., I am obliged to 

 divide my pheasantry or poultry-house into separate compart- 

 ments, in order to have them distinct. I have, therefore, erected, 

 to the front and part of the roof, a wire lattice, with lattice doors, 

 which open from the one into the other ; so that, by leaving a 

 door open, I can enlarge the compartments, and form two into 

 one when occasion may require it. It is at the extreme end, and 

 fronting a garden, which supplies the birds with an abundance of 

 vegetable matter, with an opportunity of occasionally passing 

 from the rere into a grass plot. It is elevated above the level of 

 the garden, and being in the vicinity of the sea, I have, in it, 

 several inches of sea-sand, which keeps the fowl clean, comfor- 

 table, and in good health ; and in this sand they delight to roll 

 themselves. Sea-sand has been objected to ; but from experience, 

 I would never use any other, when it could be had, and would 

 certainly recommend the nearest approach to it, coarse, gravelly 

 matter being injurious to the feet of poultry. 



With some alterations I have adopted Mr. England's poultry- 

 house ; but being, from practical observation, decidedly opposed 

 to high roosting perches, or high laying or hatching nests, for the 

 large and fine poultry, I have deviated in these two particulars. 



Front view, 15 feet wide. Interior 15 -feet wide. <v<U> view. 10 ft. deep. 



15 feet wide; 10 feet deep; 8 feet high. 



a Hatching or laying nests. 



b Perches, commencing 1 foot from the ground, with an elevation of 

 one foot for each perch after the first. 



The above is a ground plan and elevation of what I have myself 

 in use; and recommend, in addition, cleanliness, frequent white- 



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