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door in either case to keep the fowls separate. The doors and windows are 

 placed so that a good draft is secured in warm weather, and plenty of light 

 in cold weather. The perches are made portable, so that they can be moved 

 or taken out at pleasure, to make it convenient to clean out the hennery. 

 The length of the building is sixteen by thirty feet, which is divided into six 

 rooms or compartments, two are laying and roosting rooms, one sitting 

 room, and three for runways or rooms for roamage. 



PLAN OF A SMALL DOUBLE HENNERY. 



Those desiring to keep two distinct breeds of fowls on a village lot, and 

 having but little room to do so, we think a small double hennery can be made 

 to answer all purposes, in a yard one hundred and forty by thirty-five feet 

 one of which we have seen. It can be made very cheaply, takes up but little 

 room, and is considered a model hennery. This lot is surrounded in the rear 

 and one side with an ordinary tight board fence ; the coops are at C, and 

 runways R, as shown in the plan. The runways are five feet wide that to 

 the rear of the lot being twenty-five feet 

 long, the coops being each five feet 

 square ; the front of each runway is 

 lathed up like any ordinary hennery. 

 The coops are made tight, in which are 

 situated a row of nests at N ; the roosts 

 are at P; windows are placed at the 

 ends, which admit the light ; S, denotes 

 the slots in the coops for the fowls to 

 pass in and out of the runways. The 



, , . n , -, -, , i PLAN OP A SMALL DOUBLE tfENNEKY. 



runways on the side of the lot may be 



made the full length of the same, if desired, but twenty-five feet is sufficient 

 runway room for seven fowls. The door to each coop is situated in the 

 corner, D. This arrangement we think very economical, and answers every 

 purpose for keeping two distinct breeds of fowls, in a small space. If 

 deemed advisable, the fowls could be let out on the large plat of ground on 

 alternate days, to allow them to get grass, and pick up such refuse as comes 

 from the kitchen and table. It is a good plan to sift coal ashes in the 

 hen-yards for them to wallow in ; also to spade up a portion of it, so that 

 they can, in sunning themselves, wallow in the fresh dug earth, which has a 

 tendency to keep them clear of vermin. 



RHODE ISLAND POULTRY HOUSE. 



The following plan of a poultry house is taken from the Albany Culti- 

 vator, and differs very considerably from those already given. The writer 

 who furnishes the plan remarks: "Some farmers are of an opinion that a 

 few boards tacked together, or set against the side of a wall, answer very 

 well for the purpose of a hen roost ; but I have come to the conclusion that 

 to render our fowls profitable, as much care must be taken of them as of our 



