6o METHODS OF POULTRY MANAGEMENT, 



This house accommodates 350 hens — 50 in each 20-foot sec- 

 tion — is well made of good material, and should prove to be 

 durable. A rougher building, with plain instead of trap nests, 

 and with the roof and walls covered with sorne of the prepared 

 materials instead of shingles, could be built for less money, and 

 would probably furnish as comfortable quarters for the birds. 



Curtain front house No. 3 was constructed in 1904. Tt is 16 

 ft. wide by 120 ft. long and is of the same style as No. 2 except 

 that it is wider. There are four pens in the building, each 16 

 ft. wide by 30 ft. long. The pens are arranged to hold from 125 

 to 150 hens each, depending on the exigences of the experi- 

 mental work. One hundred and fifty birds per pen do very 

 well in these pens. Unless there is special reason for it, it is 

 usually preferred to put but 125 birds in each pen. The inter- 

 rior of one pen in this house is shown in Fig. \2. 



The econom.y in cost of the wider house over the narrower 

 one like No. 2 described above, when space is considered, is 

 evident. The front and back walls in the narrower house cost 

 about as much per linear foot as those in the wide house and 

 the greatly increased floor space is increased by building in a 

 strip of floor and roof running lengthwise of the building. The 

 walls, doors, and windows remain the same as in the narrow 

 house, except that the front wall is made a little higher. Three 

 six inch square sills run lengthwise of the house. The outer 

 ones rest on rough stone walls high enough from the grou)i:l for 

 dogs to go under the building to look after rats and skunks 

 that may be inclined to make their homes there. The stone 

 walls rest on the surface of the ground. The middle longitudi- 

 nal 5 in. X 6 in. timber rests on cedar posts. The floor timbers 

 are 2 by 6 inch in size and rest wholly on the top of the sills. 

 All wall studs rest on the sills. The front ones are 8 ft. long 

 and the back ones 7 ft. 3 in. long. The two sides of the roof 

 are unequal in width, the ridge being 5 ft. and 4 in. from the 

 front wall. The height of the ridge from the sill to the extreme 

 top is II ft. and 2 in. All studding is 2 by 4 in. in size and 

 the rafters are 2 by 5 in. The building is boarded by i in. 

 boards and is papered and shingled with good cedar shingles on 

 walls and roof. The floor is two thicknesses of hem.lock boards 

 which break joints in the laying and have building paper be- 

 tween. 



