THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 

 VIRGINIA POULTRY HOUSE. 



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A writer in the fifth volume of the Cultivator says, " I have used the 

 poultry house, of which drawings on preceding and this page, are represen- 

 sentations, for about eight years, and can testify that it is preferable to 

 any known in this section of country, and many of my neighbors have 





FRONT VIEW. 



GROUND PLAN. 



aside their old houses and built after my plan. The roosts for the 

 fowls should be often renewed, and always of sassafras, as the smell of 

 that wood is deleterious to the vermin on poultry. The floor in the sitting 

 room should always be kept perfectly clean, and continually covered with 



CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE. 



ashes and lime, and the litter from under the roosts taken away weekly. 

 A, the door ; B, the entrance for the fowls ; C C C, the openings underneath 

 the mitred floor, where the fowls roost ; D D D, six inch openings to admit 

 air ; F, the ground floor, made of earth, elevated above the surface one foot, 

 with boxes for the poultry to lay and sit in ; F, a ladder for poultry to go to 



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their roosting room ; G G G G, boxes for nests ; H, lattice floor for the litter 

 from the poultry to roost in; I, a round hole, one foot in diameter, for 

 fowls to roost ; J J J, lattice windows of blinds three feet wide, and three 

 feet six inches deep." 



