POULTRY-CRAFT. 39 
Materials. 
Dimension lumber : — 
32 pieces 2 x 4 in. 18 ft. long; 8 pieces 2 x 4 in. 16 ft. long; 
2 pieces 2x qin. 14 ft. long; 62 pieces 2 x 3 in. 16 ft. long; 
28 pieces 2 x 3 in. 14 ft. long; 44 pieces 2 x 3 in, 12 ft. long; 
26 pieces 2 x Sin. 16 ft. long; 16 pieces 2 x 2 in. 10 ft. long: 
2120 sq. ft. 
Sheathing: «© 2 « 2 @ = © 6 # es @ 4 #@ sw % ee & | & = Yooo sq ft. 
Matched flooring . 2. 6. 6 7 we ee ee ee . 4 ee + + 61500 8q,. ft. 
Roofing paper to cover . 5500 sq. ft. 
24 6-light sash, 10 x 14 glass; 9 pr. 6-in. T hinges; 18 pr. 4-in. T hinges; locks, bolts, 
nails, screws, hooks, staples, etc. For the chimney about 40 bricks for each foot in 
height will be needed. 
To Make the Joints at the Eaves Wind Tight.—In constructing the house 
from which this plan is adapted, the builder devised a novel and effective way 
of making the joint of the side walls and roof wind tight. The paper on the 
sides (see Fig. 20) is lapped over 
onto the first board of the roof. 
A double row of shingles is then 
laid, just as if the roof was to be 
shingled, and the roof paper is 
lapped well over the shingles. 
If this plan is followed in con- 
structing a house, three-fourths 
M. of shingles should be added 
to the bill of materials given. 
Fig. 20. 
43. A Poultry House with Roosts on the Warm Side. — In Fig. 21 
(p- 40) is shown a house designed to combine the best features of plans already 
described, with a few ideas not heretofore generally applied to poultry houses. 
The radical difference between this and all other plans given, is that the roosts 
are placed near the south wall and parallel to it. As is well known, the south 
side of a room is, as a rule, the warmest side. The simple change in position 
of the roosts gives the fowls the warmest part of the house to sleep in. To 
make it possible to keep the fowls comfortably warm on the coldest nights, 
and to regulate the temperature near the roosts, the roosts are enclosed in a 
box, the entire front of which can be opened or closed as desired. (The boxed 
roost has been used for some time by breeders of large combed varieties, but 
has generally been placed either near the north wall, or in the middle of the 
pen, where it obstructs the light). 
By removing the roosts from the north wall and doing away with a passage, 
both earth floor and litter can be removed and renewed through a half-window 
in the north side of each pen. This work can be done in each pen without 
disturbing the fowls in any other. The plan saves labor, earth and litter being 
transferred directly from wagon to pen, or vice versa. In most houses straw 
and litter are handled through the passage, or from pen to pen; earth through 
