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. 2. This building if to be used as a scratching shed house will be 

 better if the width of roosting room and shed are changed. Make 

 the roosting room 7 or 8 ft. wide and give balance of space to 

 scratching shed. 



3. Instead of hinged door to scratching shed opening to the floor 

 substitute a window with muslin or duck curtains. Have width of 

 window nearly full width of shed, and window sill about two and a 

 half or three feet above floor. 



4. Unless designed for housing Leghorns, Minorcas or other 

 breeds requiring a warm house, the writer would either divide such a 

 house into two equal pens — each with one open curtain front — for 

 two small flocks : or remove the partition entirely, putting in the 

 two large curtain front windows and usijig the house for a single 

 tlock of forty to fifty fowls. 



5. With the curtain front style of construction the ventilating 

 shaft will be unnecessarv. 



Fiof- 6. Tolman Fresh Air I'oultrv House. 



The Tolman House. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Joseph Tolman, of Norwell, Plymouth 

 County, it is possible to present a cut of his small fresh air poultry 

 house. 



