CHAPTER ITI. 
SPECIAL-PURPOSE POULTRY HOUSES, 
A VERY COMPLETE POULTRY HOUSE. 
The very complete yet simple plan for a poultry house 
on the following pages was submitted by Charles H. Col- 
burn, of New Hampshire, in competition for prizes offered 
by the publishers, and received the highest award. It is 
built with the windows to the south. Fig. 9, a, is a door 
eighteen inches square for putting in coal; @ is a place 
for early chickens ; ¢, boxes for oyster shells and ground 
bone; d, movable coops for hens with chickens. The 
inside doors are at e, e, e, e ; boxes for soft feed at g, g, 
and bins for grain are at h, h. A scuttle for the drop- 
pings is placed at 7, in the passage-way, under which isa 
receiving box, and a track laid to the door 7. This door 
is hung with T-hinges, and opened only for the passage 
of the box. A ventilating hole is left in the door. The 
nests for setting hens are at &; lobby for the hens at 7, 
and small ten by twelve-inch openings through the wall 
for hens to enter the yards, are shown at m. Othersim- 
ilar openings for hens pass from yard to yard are at x. 
A small coal stove, 0, is used to cook feed and for heat- 
ing rooms in the coldest weather. Lead pipes, p, boxed 
up and packed with sawdust, run under the floor of the 
passage-way from the water tank to the end pens, where 
a faucet is attached and regulated that water will fall into 
dishes. The windows are at g, nine by twelve-inch glass ; 
each sash is arranged to raise. The roosts, 7, are one and 
a half by three inches, and rounded on the edge. The 
platform, s, under the roosts, is three feet wide, with a 
two-inch strip on the front; the whole may be covered 
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