268 POULTRY BREEDING 
other houses described. It is not nearly so common as 
it was a few years ago. 
The next page shows two houses that can be built 
very cheaply. The colony house on skids can be moved 
from place to place about the range and the house with 
the wire-covered run is adapted to those who keep 15 or 
20 fowls in the backyard to furnish eggs for the family. 
Detailed plans are not necessary. Neither of these houses 
requires studding, the corner boards being set up and 
girts nailed to them. The wire run for a few fowls is 30” 
high, this being high enough to give head room to almost 
any breed. This run is covered with wire and gives 
absolute assurance that the fowls will not escape and 
that strange birds will not meddle with the flock. The 
writer has kept 15 fowls in a yard like this months at a 
time, the run being 20’ long and 5’ wide. Of course every 
want of the birds was supplied and they kept healthy and 
laid as well as they would if they had been at liberty. 
The piano box house has often been described and 
many plans for building a poultry house from the lumber 
in an ordinary piano box have been discussed. The piano 
box is a cheap source of lumber and on page 269 are 
given two views of houses built from piano boxes. On 
page 191 is another plan. It is not necessary to go into 
detail. The pictures show how they appear after being 
built. The larger two were built from the lumber of 
two piano boxes and the smaller from one box. At least 
two extensive poultry plants are equipped in full with 
houses made of piano boxes and they are entirely satis- 
factory. 
The foregoing plans are not submitted as the only ones 
but it is believed that from them a plan may be selected 
that might be followed in constructing poultry houses, 
