placed in a wire coop standing in the open air not far distant from 

 the poultry house. 



The cut shows the general construction of this coop. Its dimen- 

 sions on the ground are 6 x 12 ft. ; height 20 inch. The roof is of 

 paper and there are perches for the fowls beneath it. 



Neither the rooster in the basement nor the 

 No Medicine pullets received medicine. Both were, how- 

 Used, ever, supplied with ordinary feeds, pure water, 



shells and grit. The cases were all quite se- 

 vere. The pullets, although one lost an eye, made a rapid recovery. 

 The rooster grew steadily worse, and at last the writer, convinced 

 that he would die where he was, put him into the coop with the pul- 

 lets. His improvement and complete recovery were rapid, although 

 he also lost one of his eyes. In this coop, protected only by a strip 

 of burlap around the west end, these three fowls remained through- 

 out the entire winter, which was one of full average severity — 

 7.5° below zero being registered in March. After each snowfall 

 one[edge of the coop was raised and the snow beneath it removed. 

 The pullets suffered no apparent inconvenience ; the rooster's comb 

 and wattles were frozen, but not to greater degree than is frequent in 

 houses of ordinary construction, and not enough to lessen his vigor 

 and influence. 



Not only did the pullets suffer no apparent dis- 



Eggs in a Snow comfort; but they began to lay before the end 



Bank, of January, and laid as well throughout the 



winter as the average of their more warmly 

 housed sisters. 



The writer, on taking possession of the prem- 



Ex-Church Win- ises he now occupies found a hen house with 



dows Removed, three pens, each 8x10 feet and about 8 feet 



high at the front and 5 feet at the back. In 

 each pen was a window, evidently from an old church, occupying 

 nearly the entire front. All these were removed after the experience 

 of three or four years. The fronts of two of the pens were closed in 

 and shingled, with one ordinary 3x6 window in each. The space 

 formerly occupied by the window in the other was closed with poul- 

 try netting and provided with a muslin curtain, it being his design to 

 use this pen as an open scratching shed. After his experience with 



