THE DOLLAR HEN FARM 
about four. The house is made eight by sixteen, and one end 
—not the side—left open. For the house that man is to enter, 
this form cannot be improved upon. 
The only other points are to construct it on a couple of 4x4 
runners so that it can be dragged about by a team. Cypress, 
or other decay-proof wood should be used for these mud-sills. 
The framing should be light and as little of it used as is con- 
sistent with firmness. If the whole house costs more than 
twenty-five dollars there is something wrong in its planning. 
This house should accommodate seventy-five or eighty hens. 
For smaller operations, especially for horseless, or intensive 
farming, a low, light house may be used, which the attendant 
never enters. A portion of the roof lifts up to fill feed-hop- 
pers, gather eggs or spray. These small houses may be made 
light enough to be moved short distances by a pry-pole, the 
team being required only when they are moved to a new field. 
Not one particle of poultry manure is to be removed from 
either style of house. Instead, the houses are removed from 
the manure, which is then scattered on the neighboring ground 
with a fork, or, if desired to be used on a field in which 
poultry may not run, it may be loaded upon a wagon together 
with some of the underlaying soil. 
There have been books and books written on poultry houses, 
but what I have just given is sufficient poultry-house knowl- 
edge for the Dollar Hen man. If he hasn’t enough intelligence 
to put this into practice, he has no business in the hen busi- 
ness. Additional book-knowledge of hen-houses is useless; 
it may be harmful. 
If you are sure that you are fool-proof, you may get Dr. 
Feather or Reverend Earlobe’s “Book of Poultry House Plans.” 
It will be a good text-book for the children’s drawing lessons. 
The Feeding System. 
Oyster shells, beef scraps, corn, and one other kind of 
grain, together with an abundance of pasturage or green feed, 
= the sum and substance of feeding hens on the Dollar Hen 
‘arm. 
The dry feeds are placed in hoppers. They are built to 
protect the feeds from the weather. The neck must be suffi- 
ciently large to prevent clogging, and the hopper so protected 
by slats in front that the hen cannot toss the feed out by a 
side jerk of her head. These hoppers may be built any size 
desired. The grain compartments should, of course, be made 
larger than the others. Weekly filling is good, but where a 
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