PO UL TR T- CRAFT. 



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Materials. 



2 1 20 sq.ft. 



7000 sq ft. 



1500 sq. ft. 



5500 sq. ft. 



24 6-light sash, 10 x 14 glass: 9 pr. 6-in. T hinges; 18 pr. 4-in. T hinges; locks, bolts, 

 nails, screws, hooks, staples, etc. For the chimney about 40 bricks for each foot in 

 height will be needed. 



To Make the Joints at the Eaves Wind Tight. In constructing the house 

 from which this plan is adapted, the builder devised a novel and effective way 

 of making the joint of the side walls and roof wind tight. The paper on the 



sides (see Fig. 20) is lapped over 

 onto the first board of the roof. 

 A double row of shingles is then 

 laid, just as if the roof was to be 

 shingled, and the roof paper is 

 lapped well over the shingles. 

 If this plan is followed in con- 

 structing a house, three-fourths 

 M. of shingles should be added 



to the bill of materials given. 

 Pig. 20. 



43. A Poultry House with Roosts on the Warm Side. In Fig. 21 

 (p. 40) is shown a house designed to combine the best features of plans already 

 described, with a few ideas not heretofore generally applied to poultry houses. 

 The radical difference between this and all other plans given, is that the roosts 

 are placed near the south wall and parallel to it. As is well known, the south 

 side of a room is, as a rule, the warmest side. The simple change in position 

 of the roosts gives the fowls the warmest part of the house to sleep in. To 

 make it possible to keep the fowls comfortably warm on the coldest nights, 

 and to regulate the temperature near the roosts, the roosts are enclosed in a 

 box, the entire front of which can be opened or closed as desired. (The boxed 

 roost has been used for some time by breeders of large combed varieties, but 

 has generally been placed either near the north wall, or in the middle of the 

 pen, where it obstructs the light). 



By removing the roosts from the north wall and doing away with a passage, 

 both earth floor and litter can be removed and renewed through a half-window 

 in the north side of each pen. This work can be done in each pen without 

 disturbing the fowls in any other. The plan saves labor, earth and litter being 

 transferred directly from wagon to pen, or vice versa. In most houses straw 

 and litter are handled through the passage, or from pen to pen ; earth through 



