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are fastened to frames made of the same material for 
supports. The whole is fastened to the wall by rings 
fixed in staples, so that it can be turned up and held 
against the wall by a hook. It is twelve feet long, 
three feet wide, and should stand eight inches from the 
wall and about one foot from the floor. 
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STOVE FOR A POULTRY-HOUSE. 
A simple and safe method of warming a poultry-house 
in winter is as follows: With a few bricks and common 
mortar build a box five feet long and two and one-half 
feet wide, leaving an open space in the front about a foot 
wide. Lay upon this wall, when fourteen inches high, 
go as to cover the space within the wall except about six 
inches at the rear end, a plate of sheet-iron. Build up 
the wall a foot above the iron and then build in 
another plate of iron, covering the space inclosed 
all but a few inches at the front. Then turn an arch 
over the top and leave a hole at the end for a stove- 
pipe. A small fire made in the bottom at the rront will 
then heat this stove very moderately; the heat passing 
back and forth, will warm the whcle just sufficient to 
make the fowls comfortable, and there will be no danger 
of injury to their feet by flying up upon the top, as it will 
never be hot if a moderate fire only is kept. The stove 
will be perfectly safe, and may be closed by a few loose 
bricks laid up in front, through which sufficient air will 
pass to keep the fire burning slowly. Ordinarily a fire 
necd only be made at night during the coldest weather. 
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NEST-BOXES, 
Many farmers and other persons who keep poultry 
fail to provide nests for their hens, and then grumble he- 
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