21^ filE FARM. 



at least two -windovrs of six 8x10 lights. Partition across the middle, -with & 

 door. Fix ventilators at the highest point in each end, sheathed to exclude 

 storm and -wind. Erect roosts 20 inches high, for twenty fowls, with a mova- 

 ble nest or two, and a box, partly filled with dust and ashes, and you are 

 ready for " business." Forty large fowls can be accommodated and thrive 

 well. Since the house is double we are in shape for running two breeding 

 yards. Fence can be built cheaply with lath nailed upright to two 1-inch-thick 

 pieces, the lower one 8 ur 10 inches wide, and the upper about 2, 30 inches 

 apart; the lath may be 3 inches apart, and a short piece 16 inches long, 

 tacked to the bottom board, and to a hght strip i-unning lengthwise the 

 panel. It is best to make this fence in panels about 12 feet long. Set a post 

 where they come together, and pass a wire around panels and post, fasten, 

 and you have light, cheap, strong fences. The house can be made warmer 

 if necessary by lining with tar-board sheathing. 



All Inexpensive Cliiclcen Coop._A correspondent writes as follows: 

 " Having made a good discoveiy, I am desirous of giving it to the people. 

 Being engaged in raising chickens for profit, it was necessary to make cheap 

 coops to keep them in for a few weeks. I take an old barrel and tack every 



hoop on each side of a seam 

 between the staves with an 

 inch wrought nail; after 

 clinching the nail, I saw tho 

 hoops off on the seam. Then 

 I spread the ban'el open, as 

 shown in the illustration, by 

 cutting a board about twenty 

 inches long for the back of 



AN INEXPENSIVE CHICKEN COOP. ^, o u 5 c-i i, o aL.«. ux 



the coop, and two small 

 pieces to tack laths on for the front part. I have the iipper section of the 

 back fastened with leather hinges, so that I can open it at pleasure. Eveiy- 

 body has old barrels which are almost valueless, and the trouble and ex- 

 pense of making a coop of this description is so small that it is not worth 

 mentioning, while to buy the material and make a coop of the same size, it 

 woiild cost about one dollar." 



Chicken Cholera. — A New Jersey correspondent gives this remedy: 

 Take of pulverized copperas, sulphur, alum, cayenne pepper and rosin, of 

 each equal parts, and mix one teaspoonful in four quarts of meal. Give 

 three days in succession, then once a week as a preventive. I have seen it 

 used sTicccssfully. It will not cure those which have it, but will prevent 

 spreading of the disease. For a disinfectant, use crude carbolic acid — one 

 tablespoonful in one gallon of water. Sprinkle the hen house often, say 

 about twice a week. 



Another correspondent says: I used a strong tea made of white oak bark, 

 which I used in the drinking water as a preventive. When a fowl was taken 

 sick I used it piire, giving several teaspoonfuls at a time, four or five times 

 a day. I have taken fowls so far gone that they were past eating or drinking, 

 and cured them in a few days with this simple remedy. As a disinfectant I 

 use crude carbolic acid, pouiing it on a board in the chicken house and on 

 the perches, coops, etc., or anywhere that tho fowls frequent. If you will 

 try this plan for awhile, removing all infected fowls from the flock, and keep 

 the surroundings clean, I think you will soon get rid of the disease. 



