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POULTRY HOUSING, 



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and from that time until February 22, when I took some 

 out to put in my breeding pen, the nine pullets were giving 

 me about a fifty per cent egg yield, and still growing. I 

 weighed them all on Feljruary 22, and found five of the nine 



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Details of Construction op House shown on p. 398. — This house is 8 feet square on tlie 

 ground, 4 feet high at sides, 7 feet in tlie middle. Cost about $12. A, sill plan, with position 

 of corner boards indicated at c c c c, d d d d; E, construction of a corner; B, side; C, front; 

 D, method of cutting pattern for rafters. 



weighing nine and one-half pounds or over, and none of the 

 others nmch below it. These pullets were not fat ; they 

 were big pullets, in good condition. Their house, as shown 

 in one of the illustrations accompanying this article, was 

 battened only on the back and half way forward on each side. 

 The door was oi)en i)ractically all the time, day and night ; 

 and the windows were always partly open except when a 

 storm came against one, when that one would be closed. 



The next winter, still continuing to use the houses I had 

 already built, I built on frozen orround late in November a 

 house very similar to that in Avhich the Brahma pullets just 

 mentioned had been kept. It was made of old material, and 

 was a little poorer in construction all around than the other 

 house, joints lietween sides and roof not as good, and some 

 very wide joints between boards in front. Into this house I 

 put my Dorking hens and pullets. This winter, 1903-04, 



