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F, a door to throw out the manure ; it turns up 

 and hooks at E ; C C, windows with small wire 

 grates. 



Fig. 3. Interior view ; U, a door ; O O O O, 



Fig. 3. 



boxes for nests, twelve inches square, to be 

 placed in three tiers, one above the other; U, 

 an inside door of the same dimensions as the 

 outer one ; B B, are poles, or roosts ; these may 

 be either sassafras or wild cherry-tree. They are 

 fitted to swing up and hook at the upper floor. 

 Fig. 4. Side view ; M M, nests or boxes for 



Fin. 4. 



.M 



M 



brood hens ; these should have a long door to 

 swing down and hook at the bottom. 



VIRGINIA POULTRY-HOUSE. 



A writer in the fifth volume of the Cultivator 

 says, " I have used the poultry -house of which 

 the following drawing is a representation, for 

 about eight years, and can testify that it is pref- 

 erable to any known in this section of country, 

 and many of my neighbors have thrown aside 

 their old houses and built after my plan. 



" The roosts for the fowls should be often re- 

 newed, and always of sassafras, as the smell of 

 that wood is deleterious to the vermin on poultry. 

 The floor in the sitting-room should always 



be kept perfectly clean, and continually covered 

 with ashes and lime, and the litter from under 

 the roost taken away weekly. 







A 



FRONT VIEW. 



A, the door ; B, the entrance for the fowls : 

 C C C, the openings underneath the rnitred 

 floor, where the fowls roost ; D D D, six-inch 



E 



GROUND PLAN. 



openings to admit air ; E, the ground floor, made 

 of earth, elevated above the surface one foot, 

 with boxes for the poultry to lay and sit in ; 

 F, a ladder 

 for poultry to 

 go to their 

 roosting- 

 room ; G G 

 G G, boxes 

 for nests ; H, 

 lattice floor 

 for the litter 

 from the poultry to fall through, and room for 

 the poultry to roost in; I, a round hole, one 

 foot in diameter, for fowls to roost ; J J J, lat- 

 tice windows of blinds three feet wide, and 

 three feet six inches deep." 



EEAK VIEW. 



