70 



BIGGI.K POULTRY BOOK. 



lumber, as it consists chiefly of roof. It will be an 

 advantage, especially on low ground or clayey soil, to 

 have the floor filled in six or eight inches deep with 

 cinders or broken stone and covered with gravel 

 or sand. The ventilator is for summer use alone and 

 should be tightly closed in winter. The cut repre- 

 sents a house twelve by sixteen feet, set on a wall two 

 feet high, the point of the roof being eight feet above 

 the floor. 



Figure 2 exhibits a good type of house for general 

 use. As will appear from the illustration it has two 

 enclosed apartments with an open shed in the center. 

 Both the apartments 

 being raised thirty in- 

 ches from the ground 

 the whole floor space 

 is available as a scratch- 

 ing-room. The house 

 is twelve by twenty- Fig. 2. 



four feet, the shed and end parts being eight by twelve 

 feet each. One end is the roosting-room, and the 

 other the laying and hatching-room. The fowls reach 

 these rooms when the doors are shut l)y means of cleated 

 ])oards extending from the ground to an opening in the 

 floor. A passageway from one to the other 

 eighteen inches wide and enclosed by 

 wire netting is shown in the cut along 

 KiG. 3. ^j^g j.^^^j. ^,^11 Qf i^i^g shed. Figure 3 shows 



the plan of this house. 



A serviceable and good all-around house is shown 

 at Figure 4. A good width for a building of this 

 character is eighteen feet, this allowing three feet for 



