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outside which is in turn covered with matched siding and 

 well painted. The house faces south, has plenty of light, 

 storm door and storm windows. A fiVe-foot board plat- 

 form extends in the north side of the house from east to 

 west. This is screened in, the nests rest upon it and the 

 eggs are gathered without going among the birds. The 

 roosts are one and one-half feet above the floor of the coop 

 and under the platform, with droppings board under the 

 roosts which is kept clean and has fine ashes frequently 

 scattered on it. The dirt floor is cleaned once a week and 



Buildings of a Village Poultry Keeper who Secures Enough Profit to 

 Pay the Family's Meat and Grocery Bills. 



fresh straw put in to the depth of nine inches, making a 

 fine scratching place. Once r. week a mixture of kerosene, 

 napthaline flakes and crude carbolic acid is sprayed on 

 roosts, droppings boards and walls. Twenty-below-zero 

 weather outside will not freeze water where the birds roost. 

 The morning feed is oats scattered in litter. About 

 twice a week a hot mash of boiled potatoes, vegetables, 

 bran, shorts and barley flour, occasionally seasoned with 

 salt and pepper, is fed. At noon I feed a light feed of 

 wheat scattered in the litter. Ground fresh bone is given 

 three times a week, about two and one half ounces a week 

 per bird. At evening I feed either wheat, barley or corn 

 and on^ very cold nights a hot mash, same as described for 

 feeding in the morning, but never two hot mashes on the 

 same day. Occasionally the corn is fed warm. Charcoal, 

 shells and grit are kept before the birds always. Cabbages 



