POULTRY-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 



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CHIEF TYPES OF HOUSES. 



The combination-pitch house is one that the writer can advise being built in 

 any part of the Province. Where the temperature drops to zero for any length of 

 time, this house should be built 18 or 20 feet in depth ; but where the temperature 

 goes below zero, the house should be built 20 or 22 feet in depth. 



The material needed for a unit of this house built 14 x 16 feet is as follows : 



Cost of Material.* 



800 feet rough lumber @ $14 $11 20 



1.100 feet shiplap @ $16 17 60 



Three rolls roofing-paper @ $1 3 00 



One window 3 00 



Hinges and fastenings for door 50 



Nails 1 70 



Wire front 3 00 



Cost of material only $40 00 



The reason that this house is called the " combination-pitch " house is due to 

 the fact that the point of the gable makes a slope of one-third to the north and two- 

 thirds to the south in the roof. Detailed measurements are given in conjunction 

 with the cuts. 



THE WOODS HOUSE. 



This type of fresh-air house is used quite extensively by many poultrymen to good 

 advantage. It entails a little more labour in building than does the combination- 

 pitch house. The objection in a continuous house of this type .is the disadvantage 

 one has in cleaning the same, but this could be overcome by having part of the 

 front in the form of a door, so that the litter could be removed from each individual 

 pen and carried away from the outside of the house. 



* Add on 50 per cent, of the cost price to all these prices for 1918. 



