CHAPTERII. 
CONVENIENT AND GUOD POULTRY HOUSES. 
A VERY CHEAP HEN HOUSE. 
Experience has proved that twenty fowls, properly 
housed, provided with suitable food, pure water, clean 
nest boxes, plenty of dust, lime in some form, and gravel, 
will return more clear profit than fifty, kept as they gen- 
erally are upon farms. Suggest a good poultry house to 
the average farmer, and frequently there arises in his 
mind the image of an elaborate affair costing one hun- 
dred, to one hundred and fifty dollars. Not being able 
to spare that amount for such a purpose, he goes without, 
and his poultry, exposed to the inclemencies of the 
Fig. 1.—a OHHAP HEN HOUSE. 
weather, are a dead expense fully two-thirds of the year, 
eating valuable food constantly and yielding nothing in 
return. A poultry house large enough to properly shelter 
twenty fowls can be erected at a very small cost. We give 
an engraving of one, all the materials of which, with the 
exception of the sash, cost three dollars and eighty-five 
cents. The sash was taken from a hot-bed that is used 
for sprouting sweet potatoes late in the spring. When 
the sash 1s required for the hot-bed the season is mild and 
the opening is covered with boards. This structure 1s 
nine feet wide, twelve feet long, and five feet high in the 
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