30 POULTR?Y-CRAFT. 
edge of the window opening. No scantling are used above or below the 
opening. The sill of the window is a piece of 6-in. board, projecting an inch 
beyond the outer surface of the sheathing, and inclined just enough to prevent 
rain beating under the sash. The distance between studs should equal the 
width of the sash; the height of the opening should equal the length of the 
sash. The ends of the sheathing boards, projecting one-half inch or more 
beyond the studs, make the outside side sash stops. When the sill has been 
placed as described, and the sash put in, the upper rail of the sash will over- 
lap the edge of the opening. For inside sash stops, strips of lath may be 
used at sides and on sill, and a stop about one inch square nailed to the top 
of the sash and to the sheathing. A window put in in this way is wind and 
water tight. The removal of the sash to fit the house for warm weather, and 
its replacement on the approach of winter, are the work of but -an instant. 
The studs should be set plumb, and well braced, and the rafters trued and 
firmly braced until the sheathing is nailed on, and the boards of the partitions 
in place. Sheathing 12 or 16 ft. long should be used, and in putting it on 
joints should be broken about every two feet. Such a house can be either 
shingled or covered with a prepared paper. If not shingled, it can be easily 
taken down, moved, and set up again as good as at first, except that a part of 
the covering material might have to be renewed. 
35. Continuous House for a Farm Flock. —The style of house just 
described is well suited for a farm stock when it is desirable to keep the fowls 
in several flocks, and yet have them housed 
eee: & together. The plat shown in Fig. 10 pro- 
2 af sandy | J vs] | vides for a house 12 x 72 ft., with a pen 12 
Yb ators odes 1 x 24 ft. in each end, and two pens each 12 
x 12 ft.in the middle. In the supposed case 
YARD for which this plat is made, the hens from the 
Jy bo! east pen have the run of a field, meadow, 
or pasture lot; those from the west pen run 
into an orchard; while the middle pens, each 
connected with a yard 36 x 60 ft., can be 
used in season for breeding pens, for fat- 
tening pens, or simply in connection with 
adjacent end pens, giving the two large 
flocks additional house room. If the field 
fence is made ‘‘hen-tight” for ten rods each 
way from the house, there will be little danger of the flocks mingling. 
Fig. 10, Four Pen House for a Farm Flock. 
36, Continuous House with a Walk. — In Fig. 11 is shown the dia- 
gram of a continuous house containing sixteen pens, each reached directly 
from a walk running the entire length of the building. Each pen is 8 ft. 
square. The passage is 4 ft. wide. The height of the building is 6 ft. at the 
eaves, 8 ft. at the peak. Joining the west end of the poultry house is a twos 
