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as close together as they can, and you are inviting disease when you put 

 too many chicks in one brooder. Better put in just a few and raise them 

 all, than to crowd them and lose the greater part of them. 



How to Build a Cheap Poultry House 



IN the first place you must keep your houses free from vermin, and when 

 the nights begin to get cold and stormy, gather all of your chickens 

 from the trees, sheds and out-buildings into the house you have pre- 

 pared for their winter quarters. This house should be warm and roomy 

 with windows to give light and sunshine. If you are a renter and haven't 

 a warm house for your poultry, and the landlord does not feel disposed to 

 build one for you, you can make a very comfortable house with a very 

 little labor and no expense to speak of. If you offer to do the work the 

 landlord will surely furnish the material. Pick out the location and meas- 

 ure off the ground the size you want to build your house. Then set two 

 rows of posts three feet apart, nail on some poles or old boards, then pack 

 with straw, tramp it down hard so that the wind can not come through; 

 lay poles over the top and cover deep with straw or hay. Put enough on 

 to shed the rain; put your window and door in the south side, and you will 

 find you have a very comfortable house for your poultry. If the mites 

 bother in summer, just throw out the straw packing and fill with new; burn 

 the straw you take out so as to destroy the mites. Sprinkle Lice Killer all 

 over the house and paint the roosts with it several times during the sum- 

 mer and you will have no trouble. Whitewash your nests with lime and 

 sprinkle air-slacked lime over the floor of your hen house. It will keep 

 your fowls healthy and help to rid your house of mites and lice. There is 

 no one plan that could be given to build a good poultry house that would 

 suit everyone. It will depend entirely on the location and the pocketbook. 

 The papers are full of plans. Pick out one that suits your demands and 

 means, but plaster the house by all means. 



Poultry Industry 



IT is possible that if an accurate census of poultry and eggs could be 

 taken it would be found that the value thereof would exceed $300,000,- 

 000. This throws the "fancy" part far into the shade. The great 

 trainloads of poultry and eggs going to the large cities are what show the 

 magnitude of the poultry interests. Then there is alsoj;he large number 

 of eggs used in the arts. In the face of a great array of figures and facts, 

 let the poultry business have its proper place, for it is the rival of any 

 other. Cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and even wheat are falling to the rear 

 of poultry. 



