Such houses are almost indespensable to the person who raises 

 few or many chickens. Their use removes many of the obstacles 

 that tend to annoy and defeat chicken raisers. 



Each house is 12 feet long and 7 feet wide. The front wall is 6 

 feet 2 inches high, and the back 4 feet 2 inches high from floor to 

 roof, inside. This allows a full grown person to stand erect in the 

 front part of the house. The two shoes on which it is built are 4 by 

 6 inches in size and lie flat. Their ends are chamfered on the under 

 side so as to give them a sled runner turn. They are 14 feet long, 

 and extend a foot outside of each end of the building. An inch 

 auger hole slanting backward, and outward, is bored through each 

 end of the shoes. For convenience in moving the houses, a short 

 chain with an eye bolt in each end, which can be slipped through the 

 auger holes and keyed, is used. 



The floors are of two thicknesses of boards, breaking joints so as 

 to prevent the air from drawing through. The walls and roof are 

 boarded and covered with one of the better qualities of sheet roofing 

 materials. A door 2 feet wide and 6 feet high is placed in the cen- 

 ter of the front wall with a window on each side of it. Each window 

 contains 6 lights of 10 by 12 glass in one sash. It is hinged at the 

 top and turns out, like an ordinary storm window. It is either 

 closely buttoned down, or held open at different spaces, by hooks of 

 various lengths. The longest opening is a foot, which leaves the 

 window slanting out at an angle sufficient to give plenty of fresh air 

 in warm weather when both windows are open, and the house full of 

 birds. The advantages of hinged, over sliding windows, are that in 

 stormy weather, rains and winds do not beat in to wet or annoy the 

 birds, and free ventillation is not interfered with. The window 

 openings are covered with wire netting on the inside. A slide door, 

 a foot square, is made down at the floor, near each end of the front 

 of the building, for the chicks to pass through. A temporary board 

 partition about 15 inches high divides the building crosswise into 

 halves. Two No. 4 Peep-O'-Day brooders* are used in each of 

 these houses. They are put about 2 inches away from the back wall 

 so as to allow the free passage of air to the intake openings in the 

 sides of the brooders. They set about a foot away from each end 

 of the building, and this space is filled in with an elevated platform 

 and incline, which allows the chicks to go out through the brooder 

 door, aiid down a broad easy grade to the floor. The Peep-O'-Day 



