THE PEOPLE S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOO 



into the ground a couple of inches. A sitting room can 

 the building four feet longer. The room should be in the en 

 so as to be always within notice. 



MR. HAWLEY'S POULTRY HOUSE. 



Mr. HAWLEY gave in the Rural New- Yorker, a few years since, a plan 

 and description of a poultry house which he said proved a success with him 

 during severe cold weather the thermometer indicating only three degrees 

 below freezing, when it was fifteen degrees below zero outside. The house 

 is twenty feet long, eight feet wide on the bottom, six feet high in the rear, 

 six and one-quarter feet in roof. It is built of matched and dressed lumber 



OCTAGONAL POULTRY HOUSE. 



for the outside, battened with strips and well painted. The frame is three 

 by four inch joist lathed and filled in with sawdust on all sides and roof, 



GROUND PLAN. 



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then plastered. Gravel bottom. There are three windows, twelve lights, 

 nine by thirteen, both sashes movable, and a light frame, one-half the size 

 of the windows, prevents the fowls from escaping when the sashes are 

 raised or dropped. The building is divided into three comfortable coops. 

 There is ample room for two lengths of roosts, under which there is a plat- 

 form to catch the droppings, thereby insuring cleanliness, so essential to the 



