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THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



horses and cattle. This house may be built of pine boards, or it may be 

 clapboarded and plastered with lime; in either case it should have a good 



FIG. 1. FIG. 2. 



EXPLANATION. 



plank floor. It is twelve feet long, eight feet wide, and seven feet high, 

 from the bottom of the sill to the top of the plate." 



Fig. 1. View of the east end ; A, a door, two feet wide and five feet 

 high ; E, a small window for ventilation. 



Fig. 2. View of the west end ; N" N, two holes one foot square for the 



FIG. 3. 



FIG. 4. 



entrance of the fowls ; F, a door to throw out the manure ; it turns up and 

 hooks at E ; C C , windows with small wire grates. 



Fig. 3. Interior view ; U, a door ; O O O O, boxes for nests, twelve 

 inches square, to be placed in three tiers, one above the other ; U, an inside 

 door of the same dimensions as the outer one ; B B, are poles, or roosts ; 



FRONT VIEW OP A VIRGINIA POULTRY HOUSE. 



these may be either of sassafras or wild cherry tree. They are fitted to 

 swing up and hook at the upper floor. 



Fig. 4. Side view ; M M, nests or boxes for brood hens ; these should 

 have a long door to swing down and hook at the bottom. 



