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them. Along the front the feeding troughs are to be placed. These coops 

 may be placed in a compartment in the same range with the other houses, 

 or one resting against the back of the poultry houses. 



A RUSTIC POULTRY HOUSE. 



We can scarcely fancy anything more beautifying in a poultry yard than 

 a nice and convenient rustic poultry house, combining convenience with 

 simplicity. In this line we find nothing more suitable than the following, 

 which we take from BEMENT'S Poulterer's Companion : For the rustic 

 work, join four pieces of saplings in an oblong shape for sills ; confine them 

 to the ground; erect at the middle of each of the two ends a forked post, of 

 suitable hight, in order to make the sides quite steep ; join these with a ridge 

 pole ; put on any rough or old boards from the apex down to the ground ; 

 then cover it with bark, cut in rough pieces, from half to a foot square, laid 

 on and confined in the same manner as ordinary shingles ; fix the back end 

 in the same way ; and the front can be latticed with little poles with the 



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bark on, arranged diamond fashion, as shown in the engraving. The door can 

 be made in any style of rustic form. The roosts, laying and sitting boxes 

 can be placed inside of the house, in almost any position ; either lengthwise 

 or in the rear. From the directions here given, a person can easily build a 

 fancy rustic house of any desired size, and in almost any location in the 

 poultry yard desired. To make the rusticity of the house show off to the 

 best advantage, it should be placed amid shrubbery. 



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The plan is a cheap and economical one such as can be built with very 

 little trouble or expense, combining at the same time a good and con- 

 venient poultry yard and house by simply thatching it with straw and brush- 

 wood instead of using lumber. The Rural Farmer's Library says it is made 

 by forming a circle eighteen or twenty-four feet in diameter, in accordance 

 with the size you wish to build ; on the outside of the circle cut a trench, 



