POULTRY MANAGEMENT. 1 5 



The short pieses of studding are nailed to the studs and rafters. 

 By, this arrangement there are no slack places around the plate 

 to admit cold air. The end walls are packed in the same way. 

 The house is divided by close board partitions into seven 20 foot 

 sections ; and one 10 foot section is reserved at the lower end for 

 a feed storage room. 



Each of the 20 foot sections has two 12 light, outside win- 

 dows screwed onto the front, and the space between the win- 

 dows, which is 8 feet long, and 3 feet wide, down from the plate, 

 is covered during rough winter storms and cold nights, by a 

 light frame, covered with 10 ounce duck, closely tacked on. 

 This door, or curtain is hinged at the top and swings in and up to 

 the roof when open. 



A door 2^ feet wide is in the front of each section. The 

 roost platform is at the back side of each room and extends the 

 whole 20 feet. The platform is 3 feet 6 inches wide and is 3 

 feet above the floor. The roosts are 2x3 inch stuff placed on 

 edge and are 10 inches above the platform. The back one is 1 1 

 inches out from the wall and the space between the two is 16 

 inches, leaving 15 inches between the front roost and the duck 

 curtain, which is sufficient to prevent the curtain being soiled by 

 the birds on the roost. The two curtains in front of the roost 

 are similar to the one in the front of the house. They are each 

 10 feet long and 30 inches wide, hinged at the top, and open out 

 into the room and fasten up when not in use. Great care was 

 exercised in constructing the roosting closets, to have them as 

 near air tight as possible, excepting what may be admitted 

 through the cloth curtain. 



Single pulleys are hung at the rafters, and with half inch rope 

 fastened to the lower edge of the curtain frames they are easily 

 raised or lowered and kept in place. At one end of the roosts, 

 a space of 3 feet is reserved for a cage for broody hens. This 

 being behind the curtain, the birds have the same night tem- 

 perature when they are transferred from the roosts to the cage. 



Six trap nests are placed at one end of each room, and four at 

 the other. They are put near the front so that the light may 

 be good for reading and recording the number on the leg bands 

 of the birds. Several shelves are put on the walls, i l / 2 feet 

 above the floor, for shell, grit, bone, etc. The doors which admit 

 from one room to another, throughout the building, are frames 



