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sition roofing. Over the front opening we use one-inch mesh poultry 

 netting, or better still is screen wire. We use a six-inch board at the 

 top of the opening and a foot board at the bottom, and this still leaves 

 a space of two and one-half feet wide to be covered with wire, and 

 which is always left open. You w T ill find it advisable to place two 

 studding near the center of the long slope of roof to help support same. 

 We would arrange the roosts and droppings boards as shown in illus- 

 tration. The nests may be placed under these or on the wall at each 

 end of the house. If you have tw r o pens which you wish to house, you 

 can put a partition through the center of the house. 



AN EXTRA GOOD HOUSE. 



One of the best types of a laying or breeding house of the long 

 style is that described by Mr. Mixa in his Plans for Five-acre Poultry 

 Farms, illustrated on pages to follow. We refrain from mention- 

 ing -them here, but refer you to these houses, and heartily recommend 

 them for convenience, comfort, health and cheapness. 



SEMI-MONITOR TOP POULTRY HOUSE. 



A house of this kind, 10x14 feet deep, can be built for about 

 $35.00 to $50.00, and it will accommodate about thirty-five layers. A 

 house built on this plan, 14x20 feet deep, will accommodate about 

 seventy-five or eighty hens. This house can be built as a long or con- 

 tinuous house, and divided into pens or sections. The south side of 

 this house is boarded up eighteen inches from the ground and six 

 inches down from the top, and the balance is left open and covered 

 with one-inch mesh galvanized wire, with the curtains on the inside, as 

 suggested. You should put three small windows in the monitor top 

 and hinge them at the top, so they can be raised in hot weather. These 

 windows let in sun to the back part of the house. This is a cool house 

 in summer and comfortable in winter. To make this house rat-proof, 

 make a concrete floor about two inches thick and have it come even 

 with the bottom of the sills, and this concrete should be covered with 

 four or six inches of sand or soil. The shed roof half of the house, 

 which slopes to the south, should really have a dirt floor, and this floor 

 kept spaded for the fowls to scratch in. The north half should be 

 covered with a straw litter and the grain thrown in this litter. You 

 will notice the partition between the north and south halves, a board 

 coming up eighteen inches from the floor at the bottom and down about 

 eight inches or a foot from the top, the rest being entirely open. The 

 door is placed in the east end of the house and the roosts against the 

 north wall. Make the roof of board, covered by rubberoid or asbestos 

 roofing. The side w r alls should be made absolutely tight. 



If the rear section is made two feet deeper, making the whole 

 house sixteen feet deep, it will give room for one more roost. If you 

 build this house as a large colony house, the floor dimensions being 

 fourteen feet wide by twenty feet deep, the highest point of the roof 

 should be ten feet and the rear section should be twelve feet deep. 

 Make the front section eight feet deep and the same height as the small 

 house. The actual opening in front is about two and one-half or three 

 feet high and the entire width of the house. The joints, where the 

 roof is attached to the side wall, should be made absolutely wind- 



