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QUESTION Is paint better than whitewash for the inside of a 

 poultry house? 



ANSWER No. Not as good. 



QUESTION Is there any objection to a brick poultry house? 

 ANSWER Fowls will not thrive well in one. 



QUESTION Is it necessary to have an outside run with scratch- 

 ing shed houses ? 

 ANSWER Yes. 



QUESTION How can rats be kept out of the poultry house? 



ANSWER Tack two feet wide wire netting all around the sills 

 of the house, letting it extend straight into the ground for 18 inches 

 and then turn it outward 6 inches. It should be one-inch mesh. 



QUESTION How high should the base-board be in the fences 

 between the runs, and are they really necessary at all ? 



ANSWER They should extend from the ground up two feet. 

 They prevent fowls from fighting through the fence and serve as 

 a windbreak. They are very desirable. 



QUESTION How high should fences be to prevent fowls from 

 flying over them ? 



ANSWER Some fowls are easily confined, and others not. Make 

 the fences six feet high, using a single wire at the top to stretch it, 

 instead of tacking it to a board. If necessary, stretch a single wire 

 across the top of the entire fence six inches above the top. The 

 fowls, in attempting to fly over, will strike this wire and fall back. 



QUESTION In covering the sides and ends of the poultry house 

 with tarred paper, should it be placed upon the inside or outside ? 



ANSWER It will be most advantageous to cover the inside 

 walls. By so doing the paper will be protected from the weather, 

 will last longer and will aid in keeping the house free from vermin. 



QUESTION What is the objection to board floors ? 

 ANSWER They get full of cracks, thereby causing the loss of 

 much grain, and they form a harbor for rats under the house, 



