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The tent shaped house, Fig. 3, is 8 

 ft. square on the ground, and 8 ft. to the 

 apex. The floor is of plank, and the 

 front open slat work. Houses like this 

 are used upon a large New Hampshire 

 farm. The capacity of the house is 12 

 hens ; the cost, (in N. H.), about $8. 



Fig. 4 shows a house used on a Rhode 

 Island farm. Ground dimensions are 

 8 x 1 2 f t. ; height, to the eaves, 6 ft. ; 

 to the apex, 8 ft. The walls are of rough 

 boards, battened. The roof is shingled. 

 Pig. 3. A Tent Shaped Colony Plan House. About twenty hens can be housed in it. 

 In Fig. 5 is shown a house of brick, or stone, with roof of boards covered 

 with tarred felt. The drawing was made from a building on a Rhode Island 

 farm. Each house of this style was n x 14 ft. on the ground; 7 ft. high in 



front, and 4 ft. high in rear. In each 

 twenty hens were kept ; but a house of 



Pig. 4. Colony Plan House. 



Pig. 5. Brick House for the Colony Plan. 



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this size would not be overcrowded with twenty-five to thirty hens of the small 

 or medium sized breeds. If new material must be bought and building labor 

 hired, it does not generally pay to use brick and stone. If such materials are 

 at hand, or can be procured at trifling cost, and the building done by the poul- 

 tryman, there is no economy in rejecting them. Facility 

 in making use of available building materials, foods, etc., 

 is one test of a man's ability as a poultryman. Provided 

 the house conforms to the essentials stated in ^[27, the 

 widest latitude may be taken in using materials. Good 

 houses have been log 

 houses, grout houses, 

 adobe houses. Poul- 

 try houses have been 

 made with walls and 

 roofs of old railroad 

 ties, the crevices being 

 filled with mud, and 



Pig. 6. A Colony Plan Scratching Shed House. 



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