HOUSE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 



is the ideal way of housing and yarding poultry, 

 and we recommend it to all who can possibly make 

 use of it. It is impractical, however, where thou- 

 sands of birds are kept, as the scattered houses 

 make too much extra work and inconvenience. 



In a long continuous house, in case of an epi- 

 demic or contagious disease, it is liable to spread 

 from one or two pens to every pen in the building, 

 but the colony system of housing keeps the flocks 

 too widely separated for any general catastrophe. 

 With the colony system any style of house may be 

 used either regular colony houses or one-pen or 

 two-pen continuous houses, or the same-sized 

 scratching-shed houses. 



People who must necessarily use long continuous 

 houses, on account of lack of yard room, will find 

 that as a general thing the shorter houses give 

 vastly superior results to the quite long ones. 



Attractive Poultry Houses. No particular effort 

 has been made to show especially beautiful poultry 

 houses in this book. All buildings and coops illus- 

 trated and described are, first and above all else, 

 practical ; although at the same time I do not think 

 any of them can be called positively unattractive 

 or repulsive. The houses shown can, if desired, 

 be constructed as cheaply as is compatible with 

 satisfactory results in any house, and at the same 

 time the man who wants a fancy hen-house can 

 have his desire fulfilled in this same style of house 



35 



