HOW I SHOULD BUILD 25 



Against the back wall of each of these little 

 apartment houses, place a feeder for steady 

 feed and a drinking fountain, such as are used 

 for chickens. 



Each apartment house will contain eighty 

 nests, or forty pairs of nests, in which thirty- 

 four pairs of pigeons can be comfortably ac- 

 commodated. The front part of the house is 

 left entirely open. The roof slants on each side 

 from the ridge pole, being eight and one-half 

 feet from the ground in the center, and slop- 

 ing to a height of six feet on each side, including 

 a projection of at least three or four inches be- 

 yond the house. The back, or north wall, should 

 be made as nearly weather-proof as possible. 



The four foot passage-way in the front of the 

 house should connect with the barn so as to 

 make it convenient to go back and forth in 

 stormy weather. The roof sloping over this 

 passage-way is supported by uprights — either 

 2x4, or 4x4 — ^with a foot-board 1x12, or set 

 in a curbing of concrete. Either way it is well 

 to have a shallow ditch of concrete to catch the 

 shed from the roof and carry it to the drainage 

 for the alfalfa patch. 



The floors may be dirt, boards, or concrete. 

 I had dirt floors which I found very satisfactory 

 and, of course, cheap. Boards are also good 



