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THE PEOPLE S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



waste. Elevation Length, twenty-four feet; width, eleven feet; hight 

 in front, nine and a half feet ; hight in rear, six and a half feet. All the 



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POULTRY HOTTSE ELEVATION. 



pieces are cut off of the full lengths in front, making just half a rear length. 

 The rafters, of thirteen feet joist, with either battened or shingle roof as 

 preferred. 



PLAN AND YARD. 



The building is supposed to face the south. The entrance door, E, open- 

 ing into the passage, P, three and a half feet wide, which runs the length of the 



building ; smaller doors, D, each two 

 feet wide, opening into the roosting 

 rooms, R. The nests are raised about 

 a foot from the floor, and also open 

 into the rooms R, with a hinged board 

 in the passage so that the eggs can be 

 removed without entering the roosting 

 rooms. The perches, A, are movable, 

 perfectly level, and raised two feet 

 from the floor. The partition walls 

 are tight, two boards high, above which 

 is lath; the passage wall above the 

 PLAN AND YARD. nests, and the doors, D, D, D, being of 



lath also. The roosting rooms are seven and a half by eight feet, large 

 enough for twenty-five fowls each. Windows are six feet square, raised one 

 foot from the floor. We prefer the glass to be six by eight or seven by nine 

 inches as these small sizes need no protection strips to prevent the fowls 

 from breaking them. The holes, H, for egress and ingress of the fowls, are 

 closed by a drop door worked by a cord and pulley from the passage way. 

 Another door can be placed in the other end of the passage way if desirable. 

 This arrangement of the yards, Y, of course would not suit every one ; 

 some would prefer smaller yards, making each yard the width of the room 

 and adding to its length. We can only say " cut your garment according to 

 your cloth " cut your yard according to your ground. The house above 

 is designed for only three varieties ; but by simply adding to the length, any 

 number of breeds may be accommodated. The simplest and most economi- 

 cal foundation is to set locust or oak posts about four feet deep, every eight 

 feet, and spike the sills on them. There is then no heaving from frost ; and 

 all the underpinning necessary is a board nailed to the sill and extending 



