FIB XT LE IS SONS IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



back in one piece, which saves material and insures tightness. Batten of ihch pine laid two 

 strips to a width of paper holds the covering best, although tins will do. 



Interior. -In cut, Fig. 2, the interior arrangements are shown. The roosting box, with 

 board 1 ft. high at bottom to keep litter on main floor, is 9 ft. x 3 ft., giving space for 18ft. 

 of roost, and has cloth covered frame hinged at top to let down in extreme weather and still 

 permit fresh air to reach the fowls through cloth. The cut shows no droppings board, but 

 merely the dirt floor at the bottom; this is by all odds the best arrangement, (we are 

 using both methods, and know) doing away with the unsanitary board, an abomination as 

 usually taken care of. A few shovelsful of earth occasionally thrown in the bottom of this 

 box will keep everything in good sanitary condition for several weeks without cleaning out. 



Those who prefer the board, 

 however, may put it in. 

 Roosts are 2x3 in. scant- 

 lings, 18 in. from ground. 



The nests shown in the 

 cut are up off the floor show- 

 ing floor space, and giving a 

 <^ secluded dark nest, which is 

 4 " advantage when an egg 

 ^ eater develops; they are 

 I more easily reached by the 

 attendant than the " soap 

 5 box in the corner," although 

 v the latter is not to be de- 

 , spised. These nests are set 

 ^ upon a shelf run between 

 the end of roost box and 

 3 end of house 2 ft. wide, and 

 18 in. above floor. The 

 cover, the lower half of 

 which is hinged, should have 

 slant enough to make it 

 objectionable as a roosting 

 place. 



The hoppers for grit and 

 oyster shells speak for them- 

 selves. For a feed box we 

 prefer one made by using a 

 board 10 in. wide by 2 ft. 

 long with strips 6 in. wide 

 nailed to its edges, the strips 

 to be n piled from their 

 centers, thus making in 

 effect a box 3 in. deep 

 whichever side is up. By 

 simply turning it half over, 

 a clean side presents itself. 

 Mash may be poured from a 

 | pail into a box of these 

 dimensions easier than into 

 a V trough. In conclusion 

 let us say that there is no 

 condition met by a scratch- 

 ing shed house, or any other 

 kind of house, that this house 



