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cient projection for eaves. Thus two 12-foot lengths will 

 extend entirely over the building, cutting without a particle 

 of waste in the entire structure; or 9C0 feet of 12-foot boards 

 will cover both sides and roof. Fig. 5 shows the manner of 

 placing the side and roof boards, also the appearance of the 

 building when completed. 



This house may be made by a man with little skill as a 

 carpenter, and by covering the roof with some good roofing, 

 like rubberoid or paroid, it will be as warm and as perma- 

 nent a structure as can be built. On the south side we cut the 

 G-foot boards in halves, nailing these 3-foot pieces from the 

 sill to the girt for 5 feet of each 10-foot pen, thus leaving 

 space for a window, without the extra expense of purchasing 

 frames. This is also shown in Fig. 5. 



Fig. 5. —Showing how boards, roofing and windows are placed, with ventilating 

 slides beside each window. 



Beside each window we place a slide door, to be opened and 

 shut for ventilation ; but these doors are never entirely closed. 

 In our houses we use double boarding and paper between on 

 the north side, single boards matched on the south side, and 

 paint the entire building, both for preservation and appear- 

 ance. 



Our house now being completed on the exterior, it consists 

 of four 10 by 10 foot rooms inside, connected by doorways on 

 the south side of each partition, and with windows on the 

 south side of each room. These doorways are never closed 

 in our laying houses, but one hundred hens are kept in one 

 flock, and given the entire use of the house. We find the par- 

 titions of such value as a prevention of drafts, and also as 

 giving the fowls opportunity to escape all the effects of nag- 

 ging and quarreling so common in a largo flock kept all to- 



