THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



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ground, to prevent action of the frost in the winter and spring. These are 

 regarded very much better than brick or stone piers. This house contains 

 eight pens, each of which will accommodate from twenty-five to thirty fowls; 

 each pen is nine feet long and eight feet wide. All the pens are divided off 

 by wire partitions of one inch mesh. Each pen has a glass window on the 

 southern front of the house, extending from the gutter to within one foot 

 of the apex of the roof, fixed in permanently with French glass lapping 

 over each other, after the fashion of hot-bed sashes ; they are about eleven 

 by three feet. Each pen is entered by a wire door six feet high ; from the 

 hallway, which is three feet wide ; and these doors are carefully fastened 

 with brass padlocks. 



INTERIOR OF POULTRY HOUSE. 



The house is put together with match boards, and the grooves of the 

 boards are filled in with white lead and then driven together, so as to make 

 the joints impervious to cold or wet. On the rear side of the house there 

 are four scuttles or ventilators, two by two feet, placed equidistant from 

 each other, and to these are attached iron rods which fit into a slide with a 

 screw, so that they can be raised to any hight. These are raised, according 

 to the weather, every morning, to let off" the foul air. Each pen has a venti- 

 lator besides the trap-door at the bottom, same size, which communicates 

 with the pens and runs. These lower ventilators are only used in very hot 

 weather, to allow a free circulation through the building, and in summer 



