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A GOOD POULTRY HOUSE. 



A good poultry house which can be constructed at a small cost. 

 It is a combination of the open air and closed poultry houses, and is 

 inexpensive and easy to build. It is an excellent little house and gives 

 satisfactory results. As a rule, when farmers do build a poultry house, 

 they build a tall, expensive house, which is nothing but a death trap 

 when completed. Several small houses, with your flock divided, will 



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A good poultry house. 



prove better than one large expensive house. Build this house about 

 fourteen feet long and eight feet wide. Make the roosting room about 

 six by eight feet, and devote the balance of the house to the 

 scratching shed. Have the house about seven feet high in front and 

 about five feet high in the rear. Provide for good ventilation in your 

 roosting room by makinir ;m opening and covering it with cloth. Make 

 this just above the window. The house r,-m !>< nmdc twice this length 

 and two pens provided for, if you prefer it, as described for the 

 "scratching-shed house" above. 



