THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



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on fresh ground. It will accommodate a cock and six hens. For breeding 

 purposes, where it is desirous to coop up a particular trio or more, it is 

 invaluable. 



A HENNERY THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE FROM TWO HUNDRED TO TWO HUN- 

 DRED AND FIFTY FOWLS. 



Mr. G. O. BROWN of Maryland, gives the following as a plan of a cheap 

 and convenient hennery, for those wishing to keep a large number of fowls. 

 He says : "The drawing of the building shows the north and west sides. 

 The building is sixteen by twenty feet, sixteen feet high to roof peak. Fig. 

 2 represents the inside of the building as follows : C, roosting and general 

 room ; B, egg room, feed room, etc. ; A, A, A, are nests. In the recess 

 there are three rows of nests, one 

 above the other ; 5, door opening from 

 outside building ; 6, door opening from 

 feed room to recess, nest boxes and 

 roosting room.. Fig. 3, nest boxes, 

 thirteen by twenty inches. These 

 boxes are all movable, so that I arrange 

 them to suit circumstances. By raising ^ 

 a board, hinged, one can readily ex- 

 amine the nests from the feed or egg 

 room. Should a hen wish to sit, take 

 out one of the nest boxes, turn it end 

 for end, thereby placing the end that 

 is closed up in the roosting room, 

 which prevents the other hens from 

 bothering or annoying her. I have it 

 so arranged that the sitting hen can go 

 out in a little yard, scratch and dust 

 without any inconvenience or annoy- 

 ance from the others. The egg or feed A Hm 

 room has shelves in it, and a loft, (which is reached by a ladder made 

 fast up the side,) where the feed is kept. Fig. 4 represents the roosts, two 

 feet apart, of sassafras. Fig. 5 represents a flooring of boards, with the same 

 slant as the roosts, but placed two feet away from the roost. The droppings 

 falling on these boards, roll down into a trough at the lower end, as shown. 

 In the east side of the house I have one large sliding window, and in the 

 south side two, with wire fenders or screens, over all three. A building of 

 this size and kind can accommodate two hundred to two hundred and fifty 

 chickens with ample room. 



PLAN OF POULTRY HOUSE THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE THREE DISTINCT BREEDS. 



The building is enclosed with worked spruce or pine boards, put on 

 vertically, and the hight so arranged that each board will cut to avoid 



ACCOMMODATE 250 FOWLS. 



