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in diameter with flaps of wood on hinges at the back 

 and on each side, which can be easily lowered, is 

 strongly to be recommended. A permanent house 

 should be provided with nests and roosts to be 

 reached from the ground by a ladder formed of a plank 

 with bars of wood nailed across at distances varying 

 from six to ten inches, and it should be placed on 

 slightly raised ground, having a declivity immediately 

 in front, which will help to keep the ground from 

 becoming a puddle in wet weather. 



Open the windows in the morning immediately the 

 fowls go out, sweep and scrape the floor, and scatter 

 thereon dry earth and lime once a fortnight, and lime 

 wash the whole building twice a year with carbolic 

 acid mixed up in the wash, not forgetting to treat 

 likewise the roosts and nests. 



A china egg should always remain in the nests. 

 Keep the feeding vessels also scrupulously clean, and 

 keep a dust bath composed of fine dry ashes or sand 

 and lime rubbish, always in one corner ; this can be 

 placed in a shallow box and the addition thereto of 

 some black sulphur is very desirable. 





