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Fia. 20. BARKEI/-COOP. 



small door for the hen, and when the coop is made with a floor 

 the door will be necessary to enable one to clean the coop. 

 Make the coop high enough so that the hen can stand up- 

 right without bumping her head 

 against the roof, and large enough 

 so that she can turn around with- 

 out going out of doors. 



Fig. 20 is an illustration of a 

 chicken-coop that any man or 

 boy can make from a barrel, and a very good coop it is, too. 

 Here are the directions for making : " Take an old barrel and 

 tack every hoop on each side of a seam between the staves with 

 an inch, wrought nail; after clinching the nails saw the hoops 

 off on the seam. Then spread the barrel open, as shown in the 

 illustration, by cutting a board about twenty inches long and 



fitting to the back end, and two 

 small pieces to tack laths on for 

 the front. Fasten the upper 

 part of the buck with leather 

 hinges so that it can be opened 

 at pleasure." 



Fig. 21 represents a very 

 FIG. 2i.-siMPLE CHICKEN COOP. sensible coop that any body can 

 make from the illustration. Fig. 22 shows a coop with door 

 and floor, and is a good coop where rats are troublesome. 



It is often necessary to 

 confine the chicks as well 

 as the hens; in that case 

 safety coops and runs like 

 those illustrated by Figs. 

 23, 24, and 25 will fill the 

 bill. The runs may be 

 covered with the wire 

 netting or plastering lath, "" 



but we prefer the netting, and use such runs in connection with 

 the coop shown by Fig. 19. 



In some localities the chicken or pigeon hawks are so numer- 



