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small door to shut them out when necessary. The roosts (F, F,) are round 

 poles, which rest in notches cut in pieces which are fastened to each end of 

 the building, which allows of their being taken out to clean. The gable end 

 should face to the sun, and have double sash covering the whole size of the 

 feeding room down to within one foot six inches of the ground, to let in the 

 light and heat of the sun in winter. The roof at the peak is left open for 

 ventilation, and surmounted by a double row of pigeon boxes, the under 



POULTRY HOUSE ELEVATION. 



side of which have boards hung to close in extreme cold weather. The 

 whole is surmounted by a vane to give it finish. The house is eighteen by 

 thirteen feet, and eight feet post ; is clapboarded outside and ceiled inside 

 with worked boards, and filled in with tan bark. It can be floored with 

 plank or cemented. 



PLAN OF POULTRY HOUSE THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE ONE HUNDRED FOWLS. 



A yard fifty by one hundred feet is sufficiently large to answer the 

 purpose desired by a medium breeder, and upon which one hundred fowls 



GROUND FLOOR. 



SECOND FLOOR. 



can be conveniently kept. But the more room allowed them the better it 

 will prove for the health of the brood. This lot should be allowed the fowls 

 outside of the dimensions of the hennery. We have seen a flock of one 

 hundred fowls well kept upon the space mentioned. A poultry house, con- 

 taining two floors, constructed on the following plan, which we take from 



