A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



half-inch wire netting, to allow ventilation 

 and prevent chicks from getting out or night 

 prowlers from getting in. To make the 

 house quite safe from summer showers, cover 

 with roofing paper or paint. 



If you have many families, time will not 

 allow all to be provided with such model 

 dwellings; so you may have to resort to a 

 barrel tipped over on its side. If so, prepare 

 some stakes, which will be needed on each 

 side to fix it when placed for use. To make it 

 habitable, throw three or four shovelfuls of dry 

 earth into it, and on that some cut hay. Make 

 a gate of slats for the front to keep Biddy in, 

 and cover all over the top with roofing paper, 

 putting a straight strip about four inches deep 

 across the top of the front, to prevent rain 

 from beating in. A light piece of wood put 

 up against the slat door and held in place by 

 a stone will close up safely for the night. 



Individual drinking fountains will also be 

 required, and though the correct galvanized 

 ones cost only thirty-five cents for the quart 



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