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the Scottish Farmer, will accommodate, very comfortably, one hundred 

 fowls during winter and summer, provided they are allowed the liberty of 

 roaming in a small yard during pleasant weather. The cost of the building, 

 of course, will vary according to style of construction and price of materials. 

 The house is considered, in England, a desirable one, and answers the pur- 

 pose so well that it is being extensively used by poultry fanciers of limited 

 means. The plan presents some features of novelty as well as of utility. 

 The posts of the frame, if built of wood, may be not over nine feet high, by 

 resting the sills on concrete walls of three feet, where it is convenient to 

 build on a slight inclination. Seven and a-half feet in hight will do for 

 feeding room and the manure pit, which may be formed by running a wall 

 three feet high, as shown by the dotted line. The manure may be thrown 

 in through the door, which opens near. Three windows on the south side 

 will give light and warmth. The second floor may be lathed up the roof, to 

 give sufficient hight in the center, which will be four and a-half feet under 

 the eaves of the roof. The nests are set in the partition, one foot from the 

 floor, one foot high, and one and a-half feet long, open at both ends with a 

 slide door, which is reversed when a hen is sitting, so that she is placed in 

 the opposite or sitting room, and thus the others never disturb her. A door 



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to communicate between the rooms and windows in the end and south side 

 will give sufficient light and warmth. The whole may be lathed and 

 plastered, or ceiled up, either of which will make it a warm and durable 

 building. The lower floor is much the best for roosting and feeding, while 

 the hens can quite readily ascend to lay and sit on the upper floor with 

 equally good success. "This plan will give eighty feet of outside' wall and 

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Here is another house, designed to meet the wants of a person who 

 cannot afford to put up a poultry house, and who has but a small yard for 

 fowls to run in. The figure illustrates the design of the house. On the right 

 is the house, with door. The house is four feet long, three and a half feet 

 wide, twenty inches high at the sides, and thirty inches at the peak. Inside 

 are a roost and a couple of nests. In the rear of the yard a coop is attached 

 to the house, as shown in the drawing, in lattice work. It is five feet long, 

 and the same width, hight, and shape as the house. The house opens into 

 the yard by a hole a few inches from the ground ; it is ventilated by a few 

 auger holes bored in each end in the peak. A pane or two of glass may be 

 put in, if desirable. This coop can be moved daily, so that the fowls will be 



