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Heating the house. — Frequently inquiries are 

 made about heating this house in midwinter. In our 

 dimate, artificial heating is not necessary as the tem- 

 perature rarely touches zero. It is the exception 

 when it goes below zero in our section of New Jersey. 

 Our buildings are well constructed of matched lumber, 

 tongued and grooved, and sheathed on the north side 

 with building paper. The paper is tacked to both 

 sides of the studding before the weather boards and 

 inside boards are put on. We find this sufficient for 

 our house in this climate. No sheathing is put on 

 either end or on the south side of the house. We use 

 the common stone, two-gallon water fountains in our 

 houses and have never had one of them freeze in the 

 daytime in a pen fully occupied by birds, even when 

 the outside temperature was down to zero. In severe 

 weather, we always empty the fountains at night, 

 rather than^ take chances of their freezing and 

 bursting. 



Sectional view of house and yard. — Description 

 of Fig. ID : a, door ; b, window ; c. inside lighting 

 board ; d, i x 3-inch barge ; e, i x 5-.inch window sill ; f, 

 six-inch lighting board; g, 2 x 6-inch gate in each 

 yard with wire netting and spring hinges ; h, four-foot 

 poultry wire; i, twelve-inch sunning board full width 

 of yard; j, three-foot poultry wire; k, walking board 

 along each side of the yard and across the end south of 

 the house ; 1, stake to hold bottom of post ; m, half of 

 brick just below the surface of the ground on which 

 the bottoms of the posts rest ; n, i x 4-inch brace nailed 

 across the yard to post opposite; o, i x 4-inch brace 

 board. A cross section of the yard from A to B is 

 shown at C. 



