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with tarred paper, and when dressed with a coat of coal 

 tar, was rendered entirely impervious to the atmosphere 

 or storm, and will last for many years. They were built 

 about ten feet wide, shed roof, the front posts about seven 

 feet high, the back posts about live feet high, the front 

 facing the south, and lighted with one common size win- 

 dow about every twelve feet. Most of our modern poul- 

 try houses have too much glass, giving too much heat at 

 midday and too much cold at midnight. The extremes 

 are too great even with the above described windows. 

 They should be protected by tightly fitting shutters on 

 cold winter's nights. 



The most important matter in connection with your 

 poultry house is ventilation. No animal on your farm 

 needs so frequent a change of air as your poultry. Some 

 persons advocate taking the impure air from the bottom 

 and others from the top of the house. We do not think 

 it makes much difference which method you adopt, if you 

 have your arrangement under perfect control and easily 

 regulated. Some poultrymen prefer a ground floor, oth- 

 ers prefer a board floor, and others still prefer a cemented 

 floor. For ourselves, we prefer a tight board floor for 

 our house, with a chance for the chickens to get at the 

 ground through a run into the yard, if they desire to. 

 The advantages of the tight board floor are, it can be kept 

 clean and dry. Dampness is death to young chicks. You 

 can cover it with sand or other absorbents, as you wish. 

 Your chickens are entirely protected from rats, skunks or 

 weasels. The cemented floor has these advantages, but it 

 costs three times as much as the board floor. Such a 

 house as I have described will cost about one dollar and 

 fifty cents per running foot. If you can perform the work 

 yourself, you can reduce the cost one-third. We have 

 seen these houses built nearly two hundred feet long, and 



