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and clean the droppings boards and litter from this hallway. If you 

 have the hallway you will have to build the house a little higher to 

 give you plenty of- head room. The door on the south side is not 

 necessary if you have the hallway. You can build a house on this plan 

 larger or smaller, to meet your needs. The roosts are placed on the 

 north side. The house can be faced south or east, but never north. 

 Use the same sort of lumber for siding and same roofing recommended 

 for the other houses. 



SCRATCHING-SHED HOUSE. 



House with separate roosting and scratching pen. 



A Ground plan. B Elevation of house. 



The roosting pens are built of matched boards with roofing ma- 

 terial on the outside. The scratching pens are not lined with roofing 

 material. Note the muslin curtains in the roosting pens at the roof 

 for ventilation. 



Make this house sixteen by eight feet for two pens of ten to 

 twenty-five hens each, also a scratching shed eight by ten feet at each 

 end of the main house. Make it five feet high at the rear and seven 

 feet in the front. Build the roosting room six feet wide by eight feet 

 deep. 



Make a hole two feet by two feet near the roof in the front and 

 cover it with muslin. It is necessary to have the ventilation at the 

 roof, to prevent the moisture given off by the fowls in breathing from 

 lodging on the roof and walls of the house and forming frost. Place 

 a sash two feet square in front of each pen three feet above the floor, 

 or just below the muslin window. 



The entire front of the scratching shed is open except one foot at 

 the top and bottom. The house is built of matched boards, with roof- 

 ing material on the outside. 



The general inside arrangement of the house is shown in the illus- 

 tration. 



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